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Thomas Metzinger on a moratorium on artificial sentience development

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The Main Argument for the Moratorium on Artificial Sentience

I would never dream that anybody acts on such a proposal in the real world. Industrial lobby will all immediately stop it. The European Union is funding, has a grant, a call for applications out on inner awareness in machines. That's exactly the thing I would say we should not fund in the free world. We should not fund research projects of this kind unless we know what we're doing. It's very simple. But you just don't do this to have a potentially very high risk with epistemic indeterminacy. You just don't run it in a historical situation like this.

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