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SOoner from We believe that public opinion will diverge along the ideological lines about the rights and moral consideration of artificial intelligence systems. The issue is not whether or not artificial intelligence (such as Chatbots and robots) will develop awareness or not, but even the emergence of this phenomenon will be divided through a cultural gap that is already tired.

Indeed, there are hints from the next split. A new field of research, I recently informed it scientific Americanand Explores whether the pain capacity can be a criterion to detect feelings, or self -awareness, in artificial intelligence. There are new ways to test the artificial intelligence party Ticket On a sample of large language models, or LLMS, it showed a preference to avoid pain.

Results like this naturally leads to some important questions, which go beyond theory. Some scientists now argue that these signs of suffering or other emotions can become increasingly common in artificial intelligence and forcing us to consider the effects of artificial intelligence (or perceived awareness) of society.

Questions about the technical feasibility of the Artificial Intelligence Party quickly give way to broader societal concerns. Ethics Jeff Sibu, author “”The moral circle: who matters, what matters, and why“Even the possibility that artificial intelligence systems with living features will appear in the near future is a reason to engage in serious planning for an upcoming era in which artificial intelligence is a reality. In an interview, Sibu told me that we will soon have the responsibility to take” the first steps needed for treatment. “

Talk to Guardian In 2024, Jonathan Persh, a professor of philosophy at the London College of Economics and Political Science, explained how he expects major societal splits on the issue. There can be “a huge social rupture, where one sees the other to take advantage of artificial intelligence very harshly while the other side sees that the first deceives himself in thinking that there is a detention there.” When I talked to him about the American scientific article, Persh went a step forward, saying that he believes that there are already sub -cultures in society where people are “very close ties with AIS”, and are seen as “part of the family”, which deserves rights.

So, how can the feeling of artificial intelligence look like and why it will be exciting? Imagine a lifetime companion, a friend, who can advise you on a mortgage, study your children, or guide the best way to deal with a difficult friendship, or advise you on how to deal with it sadness. Decally, this comrade will live his own life. It will have a memory and will participate in lifelong learning, like you or me. Due to the nature of her life experience, some may be considered before some being unique or individual. He may claim to be the same.

Even the possibility of artificial intelligence systems with emotional features in the near future is a reason to engage in serious planning for an upcoming era in which artificial intelligence luxury is a reality.

But we are not there yet. On Google DeepMind’s PodcastDavid Silver – one of the leading numbers behind the Google Alfago program, which The famous won Top Go Player Lee Seed in 2016 – Commenting on how AI’s systems are not today in themselves. They have no experience in the world that lasts year after year. It suggests that if we want to achieve artificial public intelligence, or Aji Future AI systems will need artificial intelligence systems in the future – to such a life of its own experience and assembly over the years.

In fact, we are not there yet, but it is coming. And when that happens, we can expect Amnesty International to become a lifelong systems that we rely on, befriending and befriending them, a prediction that depends on the rapprochement of artificial intelligence, as Persh says that we see it already in some sub -cultures. This puts the scene to obtain a new truth – given what we know about the clashes on current cultural issues such as religion, sex and climate – will be matched by a lot of doubt in society.

This emerging dynamic will reflect many previous cultural flash points. Looking at the teaching of development, which still faces resistance in parts of the United States more than a century after Darwin, or climate change, which did not prevent the overwhelming political consensus of political polarization. In each case, the discussions on experimental facts were intertwined with identity, religion, economy and power, creating rift lines that continue across countries and generations. It will be naive to believe that the stage of artificial intelligence will reveal differently.

In fact, the challenges may be greater. Contrary to climate change or development – which we have the nuclei and ice fossils that allow us to shrink and understand a complex history – we do not have direct experience in awareness of the machine through which the discussion must be. There is no fossil record of emotional artificial intelligence, and there is no ice nuclei from feeling the machine, so to speak. Moreover, the common people may not care about such scientific concerns. So, while researchers are scrambling to develop methods to discover and understand viewers, public opinion is likely to increase. It is not difficult to imagine to be fed through viral videos of chat songs that express sadness, robots that bow to their closure, or their virtual comrades who plead to continue to exist.

The previous experience shows that in this new emotionally charged environment, various groups will participate in positions that depend less on scientific evidence and more on the world’s cultural views. Some people, who are inspired by technologies and ethics such as Cibo – who defend a wide ethical circle that includes artificial intelligence – will argue that consciousness, wherever it arises, deserves moral respect. Others may warn that assembly machines may lead to neglecting human needs, especially if companies take advantage of emotional attachment or profit dependence, as was the case with social media.

While researchers are scrambling to develop methods to discover and understand opinion, public opinion is likely to increase.

These departments will form our legal frameworks, corporate policies and political movements. Some researchers, such as CEPO, believe that, at least, we need to involve companies and companies that develop artificial intelligence to recognize this issue and make preparations. Currently, they do not do so enough.

Since technology is changing faster than social and legal progress, it is now time to expect this next ideological defection. We need to develop a framework for the future based on a deliberate conversation and direct the community safely forward.

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