Ascribing consciousness to artificial intelligence: human-AI interaction and its carry-over effects on human-human interaction.
Frontiers in Psychology 2024 Rose E Guingrich, Michael S A Graziano
The question of whether artificial intelligence (AI) can be considered conscious and therefore should be evaluated through a moral lens has surfaced in recent years. In this paper, we argue that whether AI is conscious is less of a concern than the fact that AI can be considered conscious by users during human-AI interaction, because this ascription of consciousness can lead to carry-over...