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"If You've Got an Opinion on AI Consciousness, You're Probably Wrong": Professor Eric Schwitzgebel
Professor Eric Schwitzgebel of UC Riverside, author of "AI and Consciousness: A Skeptical Overview" and co-developer, with Mara Garza, of the Design Policy of the Excluded Middle, joins Andrew Phipps to argue that society is on a collision course with a crisis over "debatable persons," AI systems whose moral status respectable scientists genuinely disagree about. The conversation ranges from whether today's AI is better understood as a mimic than a mind, using a vivid comparison to monarch and viceroy butterflies, to grief bots, digital uploading, and the philosophical puzzle of personal…
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