John McCarthy, inventor of LISP, said the same thing twenty years ago.
He warned against inadvertently creating conscious beings while
developing service robots.
Brent
On 5/28/2019 12:56 AM, Philip Thrift wrote:
There is of course the engineering prospect of making conscious
robots. But Daniel Dennett apparently says now that effort should be
stopped.
...
So what we are creating are not—s*hould not be*—conscious, humanoid
agents but an entirely new sort of entity, rather like oracles, with
no conscience, no fear of death, no distracting loves and hates, no
personality (but all sorts of foibles and quirks that would no doubt
be identified as the “personality” of the system): boxes of truths (if
we’re lucky) almost certainly contaminated with a scattering of
falsehoods.
It will be hard enough learning to live with them without distracting
ourselves with fantasies about the Singularity in which these AIs will
enslave us, literally. The human use of human beings will soon be
changed—once again—forever, but we can take the tiller and steer
between some of the hazards if we take responsibility for our trajectory.
https://www.wired.com/story/will-ai-achieve-consciousness-wrong-question/
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