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If superintelligent machines are not conscious, either because it’s impossible or because they aren’t designed to be, we could be in trouble.

— Susan Schneider

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And if an AI is a conscious being, forcing it to serve us would be akin to slavery

Nature is medicine for the soul, Miss Rolston

In the long term, the tables may turn on humans, and the problem may not be what we could do to harm AIs, but what AI might do to harm us.

The development of AI is driven by market forces and the defense industry—billions of dollars are now pouring into constructing smart household assistants, robot supersoldiers, and supercomputers that mimic the workings of the human brain.

For instance, if AI cannot be conscious, then if you substituted a microchip for the parts of the brain responsible for consciousness, you would end your life as a conscious being

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