Artificial Minds, Human Disagreement: The Political Challenge of AI Consciousness
Adam Bales, Iason Gabriel preprint
Future disagreement about whether any AI systems are conscious could be both deep and difficult to resolve. For example, some people might develop emotional bonds with AI and ascribe consciousness as a result, while others might see the whole idea as absurd. The resulting disagreement about consciousness could lead to moral and political disagreement about how we should interact with AI...