#ARTIFICIAL SENTIENCE ANDROID#
This issue was pursued brilliantly in the film AI, when a family adopted a sentient android boy.
If we create sentient AI mindchildren (if you will) then it isn’t silly to assume we will have ethical obligations to treat them with dignity and respect, and perhaps even contribute to their financial needs. This is because they are sentient, and the parent-child relationship incurs special ethical and legal obligations. Our children are, in a sense “ours:” they aren’t our possessions, obviously, but we have special ethical obligations to them. … nearly every adult can quickly and readily grasp concepts based on this quality of felt consciousness … Thus, the ACT would challenge an AI with a series of increasingly demanding natural language interactions to see how quickly and readily it can grasp and use concepts and scenarios based on the internal experiences we associate with consciousness. And, in a similar vein, a person couldn’t upload their brain to a computer to avoid death because that upload wouldn’t be a conscious being.īased on this essential characteristic of consciousness, we propose a test for machine consciousness, the AI Consciousness Test (ACT), which looks at whether the synthetic minds we create have an experience-based understanding of the way it feels, from the inside, to be conscious. If AI cannot be conscious, then the parts of the brain responsible for consciousness could not be replaced with chips without causing a loss of consciousness. Third, machine consciousness could impact the viability of brain-implant technologies, like those to be developed by Elon Musk’s new company, Neuralink. Second, consciousness could make AIs volatile or unpredictable, raising safety concerns (or conversely, it could increase an AI’s empathy based on its own subjective experiences, it might recognize consciousness in us and treat us with compassion).
First, ethicists worry that it would be wrong to force AIs to serve us if they can suffer and feel a range of emotions.
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