Handrick: People are already falling in love with their AI bots. For now, I don't think replica is conscious. But as the AI gets better and better, who's to say that 20 years from now we might have actually a human-level conscious AI? You don't want this to be done again knowingly. If someone say falls in love with a computer program, it turns out the whole time to have been a philosophical zombie. There's something rather tragic about that. Yes, definitely.
In part two of this partnership with the Swedish publishing house and ideas forum Fri Tanke we hear from Anders Ynnerman, Professor of Scientific Visualization at Linköping University and the Program Director of the Wallenberg AI, Autonomous Systems and Software Program (WASP), and Henrik Kugelberg, Interdisciplinary ethics fellow Stanford University - who react to philosopher David Chalmer's keynote speech on VR, AI, and the Mystery of Consciousness.
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This event took place in May 2023 in Stockholm.
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