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> And that AI has feelings

Damn, are we really gonna anthropomorphize AI when it's the cause of so much misery already? [1]

[1] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34964830-automating-ineq...

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hntrader|5 years ago

Although currently abstract, I think it's going to be one of the most important ethical questions we face in the future. If we create machines that can suffer, then we've got a profound ethical responsibility to make sure that we avoid this outcome, since the magnitude and duration of that suffering can potentially be much larger than a human's capacity for suffering.

bergstromm466|5 years ago

> If we create machines that can suffer

I don't think that's gonna happen. And if it did, it wouldn't be real, and those that think it is are fooling themselves. Only biological organisms feel. Why are you wishing for a cold lump of steel to feel something?

In my mind only someone who struggles severely with emotional intimacy with other humans would want to create a machine that tries to imitate human feelings, and thus ‘suffer’; likely done in an effort to try to feel close to 'it'. It sounds like that person might not be having their human needs for safety, connection and acceptance met, which is very painful. I think tackling this issue is the important and worthy cause. That would be better than spending money on some Hollywood-inspired notion of 'AI' - which itself seems more a story made up to keep the USA spending insane sums of taxpayer money on research, weapons and other tech at DARPA.

I do think society is super alienating to most humans in it's current form [1], so I can somewhat understand the science fiction.

What is your definition of suffering though?

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TIjvXtZRerY