{"id":170318,"date":"2023-08-23T21:30:28","date_gmt":"2023-08-24T02:30:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/if-ai-becomes-conscious-how-will-we-know"},"modified":"2023-08-23T21:30:28","modified_gmt":"2023-08-24T02:30:28","slug":"if-ai-becomes-conscious-how-will-we-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/if-ai-becomes-conscious-how-will-we-know","title":{"rendered":"If AI becomes conscious, how will we know?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/if-ai-becomes-conscious-how-will-we-know3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Adeel Razi, a computational neuroscientist at Monash University and a fellow at the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIFAR) who was not involved in the new paper, says that is a valuable step. \u201cWe\u2019re all starting the discussion rather than coming up with answers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Until recently, machine consciousness was the stuff of science fiction movies such as <em>Ex Machina<\/em>. \u201cWhen Blake Lemoine was fired from Google after being convinced by LaMDA, that marked a change,\u201d Long says. \u201cIf AIs can give the impression of consciousness, that makes it an urgent priority for scientists and philosophers to weigh in.\u201d Long and philosopher Patrick Butlin of the University of Oxford\u2019s Future of Humanity Institute organized two workshops on how to test for sentience in AI.<\/p>\n<p>For one collaborator, computational neuroscientist Megan Peters at the University of California, Irvine, the issue has a moral dimension. \u201cHow do we treat an AI based on its probability of consciousness? Personally this is part of what compels me.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Adeel Razi, a computational neuroscientist at Monash University and a fellow at the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIFAR) who was not involved in the new paper, says that is a valuable step. \u201cWe\u2019re all starting the discussion rather than coming up with answers.\u201d Until recently, machine consciousness was the stuff of science fiction movies [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-170318","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\/170318","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=170318"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170318\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}