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Roman Yampolskiy on Objections to AI Safety

Future of Life Institute Podcast

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The Pro-Human Bias

I think that if we just were handed a piece of infallible knowledge stating that AI's future AIs will be conscious then perhaps there could be something to to the argument for for handing over the control of the future to AIs. But are you skeptical that AIs will being conscious and therefore skeptical that that they matter morally speaking? I think they could very well be super conscious and consider us not conscious like we treat bacteria as primitive and not interesting but it doesn't do anything for me if I'm dead what do I care why is it relevant to usWhat happens billions of years later would not make any difference whether that entity was conscious or not while terraforming Mars. If they choose

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