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#559 Thomas Metzinger: Consciousness, Subjectivity, the Self, and the Ethics of AI

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Artificial Consciousness

You have to gradually give human autonomy into these weapon systems. That goes into a direction where these systems may escalate a local situation very quickly before humans can stop it. China has, how you say, overtaken the us in research publications on ai. There are 600 million cameras in public spaces in china with one point three billion citizens. This is a totalitarianism. We should not even get remotely close to the possibility of creating artificial consciousness unless we really know what we are doing there. Soo, i'm a consciousness researcher. I don't tink we will have artificial consciousness to morrow, or the day after to morrow. But my point is, and we should really devote

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