Design and software at Apple. Also into AI, philosophy of mind, ethics.

I'm down for defaulting to treating AI like it's conscious.

Historically, we've made way more mistakes by defaulting to dehumanization.

The only problem is externality pricing.

Building https://negationgame.com

Suffice it to say IMO it’s likelier that assuming consciousness in AI will lead to more mistakes (and more harm) than not.

I can try. Consciousness names a biological process like digestion or photosynthesis. Anything seeking to produce consciousness would have to duplicate its causal mechanisms, which are poorly understood. An artificial heart needs to pump blood. A flying machine needs to operate with drag and lift.

I didn’t say it is biological, I said it needs to duplicate the causal mechanisms. Artificial hearts and wings don’t use biological tissue, but they are implemented using an understanding of the physics of the phenomenon.

So you're defining consciousness as biological? Couldn't you do the same thing for flight? "Flight is something that birds do so you can't have a machine do it." Ok that's fine, what do you want to call it when a machine does the thing which we call flight when it's a bird? What about the thing we call consciousness?