Navigating Agency in AI and Humanity

ChatGPT and other language models are impressive, but they’re probably not conscious. What would it take to create conscious AI?In this podcast, expect to learn about competing views on consciousness, the path to conscious AI, whether we should even want conscious AI, the growing importance of biologically inspired AI, the possibility of creating artificial species alongside humans, global AI risks, the unique way babies learn compared to AI, whether we have a moral imperative to spread life beyond Earth, and much more...Timestamps:00:00 – Current State of AI and Consciousness04:49 – Consciousness vs. Intelligence11:12 – Competing Views on Consciousness15:15 – Scientific Work on Conscious AI18:02 – Uniqueness of Biological Agents23:15 – Would Conscious AI Be Good? 26:36 – Moral Intentions Behind AI Creation30:25 – Living With Novel Artifical Agents 34:31 – Creating Intelligent Non-Human Species37:47 – Making Slaves of Artifical Agents42:14 – Why Create Conscious AI? 46:20 – Governance and Innovation47:58 – Making Artificial Conscious Agents52:30 – Global Governance in AI54:00 – Self-Improving Intelligence57:00 – AI Risks and Threats01:00:15 – Biological AI01:18:15 – Michael Levin's Amazing Experiments01:11:15 – Xenobots, Cyborgs and Diverse Intelligences01:19:04 – Ethics and Care in Creating New BeingsFind Adam: Previous podcast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nqax1dgH2oM&t=3003s Website: adamsafron.com SapienceAI: https://www.sapienceai.org/ X: @adamsafron