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#193 – Rob Reid: The Existential Threat of Engineered Viruses and Lab Leaks
Lex Fridman Podcast
Is Artificial Consciousness Possible?
I don't rule out the possibility of artificial consciousness in any way. What I'm less certain about is whether consciousness is a requirement for a superintelligence pursuing a maximizing function of some sort. For it to coexist with human society would need to be consciousness. Could be entirely true, but it also could just exist orthogonally to human society. And ultimately, the sad, destructive path for that AI would look like just better humans than these cold machines.
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