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Thomas Metzinger on a moratorium on artificial sentience development

The Sentience Institute Podcast

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Does the System Have a High Degree of Context Sensitivity?

We seem to be certain that we are conscious ourselves, although this can also be doubted on philosophical grounds. What representational properties must a system have to be self conscious and capable of suffering? Are there certain computational architectures that will inevitably create negative phenomenology or a super interesting question for the future? And it's all very complex. But if we have to act on a practical level, there are some things you can say.

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