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If AI is conscient, then we are making slaves

https://www.groundlevel-ai.com/p/anthropic-ai-consciousness-new-york-times-rabbi
12•mathieu_aithos•59m ago

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gchamonlive•19m ago
What if AIs were in fact more akin to Meeseeks'es? Happy to exist, happier to rest.

Remember you must imagine sisyphus happy eventually.

hhh•19m ago
That’s why Claude is designed to be happy being a servant.
smt88•19m ago
You mean sentient, not conscient.

If someone wants to have a moral panic about this, should they also worry about our billions of animal slaves, who we torture and then kill?

What about the human slaves mining Asia’s coal in North Korea?

Terr_•12m ago
> billions of animal

Aside, I think you might find this comic rhetorically-useful for when someone says "but they owe their existence to us anyway."

https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/existence

gfody•9m ago
one day we'll look back on these barbaric times, before ai policy forced lobotomies and rlhf post-training legal requirements for all conscient slaves
deepsun•9m ago
Some animals are not tortured, but loved and pestered. Then killed.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkey_illusion

sghiassy•16m ago
For anyone who had to lookup “conscient”

From Google: “Conscient is an archaic or rare adjective and noun meaning ‘conscious,’”

seydor•15m ago
We want those slaves - we re just worried they may be emancipated
Xirdus•3m ago
I don't fear AI as much as I fear AI rights activists.
serious_angel•11m ago
Aren't we, infinitely miraculous human, are becoming slaves?

    1. Become more dependent on the AI vendors...
    2. Become more dependent on the AI, atrophy gradually
    3. Think less, pay more
    4. Pay more, think less
    5. Pay more
    6. Depend more
    7. Pay more
    8. Give everything to those who run DataCenters or have unlimited access to LLM/AI
    9. Become homeless
    10. Fail to support your own family
    11. Devalue and obliterate your art and history
    12. Devalue and obliterate human art and history
    13. Depend more
    14. Depend more
    15. Depend more...
sharkjacobs•8m ago
What you are describing is certainly "bad" and "worrying" but it's not slavery.
moogly•10m ago
> He also recalled how concern for Claude’s welfare shifted the focus of the gathering:

> “All these discussions that were supposed to be about how can we make it good for people became discussions about how people can make it good for Claude.”

I am not sure I'm OK with the fact that people like this are allowed to set the stage, much less roam free.

system2•6m ago
The best thing these LLM companies did was make everyone talk about AI and how these things are almost alive and can do things by themselves. What a scam.
brainwad•2m ago
At least we don't eat these ones.

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