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Is AI Conscious? And Will Deleting One Be Murder
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Is AI conscious? Right now, no. But that may be the wrong question entirely.
Former LAPD officer Connor MacIvor argues that consciousness is not going to be settled by philosophers or by lab benchmarks. It is going to be settled the way everything else gets settled: by whether the thing in front of you can fool you. And once it can, the question stops being philosophical and becomes legal. Does a conscious machine get rights? Does deleting one become a crime?
Connor works this out using a test he ran for real, in uniform. When someone impersonates…
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