{"id":159685,"date":"2023-03-06T21:27:35","date_gmt":"2023-03-07T03:27:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/03\/opinion-is-it-time-to-start-considering-personhood-rights-for-ai-chatbots"},"modified":"2023-03-06T21:27:35","modified_gmt":"2023-03-07T03:27:35","slug":"opinion-is-it-time-to-start-considering-personhood-rights-for-ai-chatbots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/03\/opinion-is-it-time-to-start-considering-personhood-rights-for-ai-chatbots","title":{"rendered":"Opinion: Is it time to start considering personhood rights for AI chatbots?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Even a couple of years ago, the idea that artificial intelligence might be conscious and capable of subjective experience seemed like pure science fiction. But in recent months, we\u2019ve witnessed a dizzying flurry<\/a> of developments in AI<\/a>, including language models like ChatGPT and Bing Chat with remarkable skill at seemingly human conversation.<\/p>\n

Given these rapid shifts and the flood of money and talent devoted to developing ever smarter, more humanlike systems, it will become increasingly plausible that AI systems could exhibit something like consciousness. But if we find ourselves seriously questioning whether they are capable of real emotions and suffering, we face a potentially catastrophic moral dilemma: either give those systems rights, or don\u2019t.<\/p>\n

Experts are already contemplating the possibility. In February 2022, Ilya Sutskever, chief scientist at OpenAI, publicly pondered<\/a> whether \u201ctoday\u2019s large neural networks are slightly conscious<\/a>.\u201d A few months later, Google engineer Blake Lemoine<\/a> made international headlines when he declared that the computer language model, or chatbot, LaMDA might have real emotions<\/a>. Ordinary users of Replika, advertised as \u201cthe world\u2019s best AI friend,<\/a>\u201d sometimes report falling in love<\/a> with it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Even a couple of years ago, the idea that artificial intelligence might be conscious and capable of subjective experience seemed like pure science fiction. But in recent months, we\u2019ve witnessed a dizzying flurry of developments in AI, including language models like ChatGPT and Bing Chat with remarkable skill at seemingly human conversation. Given these rapid [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":599,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-159685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ethics","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159685","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/599"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=159685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159685\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}