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Is There Really a Hard Problem of Consciousness? - Dr. Joscha Bach, Artificial Intelligence Researcher

The DemystifySci Podcast

CHAPTER

The Morality of Technology

I suspect that there are sometimes situations where a predator does enjoy inflicting pain on something that doesn't want to be hurt. But we also see that sometimes in humans. And I think that humans in this regard are also just a type of animal. There are basically humans which do enjoy inflicting pain. There are humans which enjoy killing. and it's also obvious why that under some circumstances this would be adaptive, giving the right environment. So when we make technology because we can conceptualize the future impacts of that technology, it is in our best interests to consider the ways in which that technology can fail us or what it will do to us if it fails. If we are to domesticate ourselves in

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