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BI 151 Steve Byrnes: Brain-like AGI Safety

Brain Inspired

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The Future AGI Systems Will Be Conscious

The structures in the AI are mirroring the structures in our brain. And, you know, there's my perspective where that could increase the chance that there's artificial phenomenology happening here. That I have high confidence that it is at least possible to make that future AGI systems will be conscious and morally relevant sense. If then sort of a separate question is what do we do with that information? The fact that AGIs are probably likely to be conscious is just makes everything sort of more complicated. It seems like the non phenomenally conscious ones would make things a little less complicated to think about from a moral standpoint. But yeah, it might just be something that we have to deal with.

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