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#264 - Consciousness and Self (Rebroadcast)

Making Sense with Sam Harris - Subscriber Content

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The Pros and Cons of Building Artificial Intelligence

If we build machines which pass the Turing test with flying colors and we find ourselves in the presence of humanoid robots that seem just as intelligent. We will helplessly treat them as though they were, he says. And I think there are two important concerns here. One is we certainly don't want to build machines that have the potential to suffer and wedon't want to risk doing it either. But a kind of more immediate pressing concern might be how interacting with these sorts of devices, what that does to our experiences and understanding of what it is to be human.

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