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Thomas Metzinger on a moratorium on artificial sentience development

The Sentience Institute Podcast

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Is There a Moratorium for Artificial Intelligence?

I have asked for this moratorium for a special reason. I see many very smart people there. They are fascinated by the question of artificial consciousness. There might be principled reasons why machines can't be conscious. Nor do we know that it will not happen very soon. And to deal with these indeterminacies is simply too difficult for most politicians. industrial lobbyists want the public and ethicists not to discuss anything like AGI or artificial consciousness because they're afraid it might ruin future markets.

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