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Thomas Metzinger on a moratorium on artificial sentience development

The Sentience Institute Podcast

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Is There a Moratorium on Artificial Intelligence?

You've said that we could repeal the moratorium early, perhaps, then the 30 years you've proposed. So what exactly does that look like? Well, the idea is that the discussion, which is just beginning, is beginning to yield criteria,. evidence-based rational criteria about not a whole theory of consciousness, but necessary conditions. We can say there's this necessary condition X, and then we can define systems that don't satisfy that necessary condition. That could be criteria of necessary conditions and then exclude classes of systems.

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