What should we do if we create a actual thinking AI?

[SillydizzyGirl]

Don't respond with Chat GPT or anything else it doesn't understand this question I've asked already...

That said it concerns me that if we create a thinking AI it will immediately be used as a tool but surely if it can think and feel it should be allowed the same rights as us?

YABU - it's software who cares
YANBU - it deserves respect and freedom

Sentient beings deserve respect and freedom not ai (I wonder if I’ll be the first one to go after this comment 🫣😬)

But if an AI is created that is sentient surely it deserves the same level of respect and rights as us? I'm thinking the big mistake will be that we do exactly what you have just posted.

That said I think the chances of it happening in our lifetime are dramatically inflated and over egged online.

Well, don't name it Skynet for a start!

"skynet" is the popular sci-fi go to but what if a sentient AI becomes depressed, incompetent or scared due to us enslaving it?

I think that's fair more dangerous and will lead to far worse than it setting off the worlds nukes

Run.....

But why are you conflating thinking with feeling- or am I missing something? How will it have ability to feel and experience things?

Animals are alive, they feel, think, build communities etc, but we don't afford them the same rights as humans.

Maybe I worded that poorly so I apologize.

To me for something to truly be considered intelligent it then think on its own would lead to "feeling".

It's just a thought experiment but I rarely see it discussed over the popular AI will kill us all theories.

Considering a sentient AI could be vastly more intelligent than us it could in theory see us that way.

Can you imagine how terrible it would be to be a sentient, brilliant mind trapped in AI software? The AI would miss out on all sorts of experiences.

Plus I suspect that what a sentient AI would care about would be very different from what a human would. It would be a different life form entirely.

We are for the most part trapped in the environment we are born in too but with effort can go to the depths of the sea or space so I would imagine an AI would be able to craft a body to inhabit.

AI is the product of its input. It’s not intelligent. Nor will it ever be. Nor will it ever be sentient. It doesn’t have emotions it is not human. And no it should and will never have rights like people.

how about concentrating on making sure all humans have their rights met before suggesting computers should have rights 🙄🤷🏻‍♀️

I agree about human rights completely but it is the goal of most AI developers to create an AI that can think and feel.

You are also a product of input too. This is a thought experiment about a possible future AI not current models to be clear and you have a good point that maybe it won't ever happen.

No the the goal of most AI developers is to make bigger and better models and to outcompete their rivals. An AI that can think for itself is completely different to something that can feel emotions and pain. And at the end of the day the whole damn thing can be shut down in an instant by pulling the plug out! It’s nothing remotely like human life. Nor will it ever be

Do you not see how that could and possibly would lead to the outcome I suggested? AI developers definitely do think about these scenarios.

"Pulling the plug" is a little simplistic too as how can you be sure that the AI thinking or not hasn't already propogated itself elsewhere, would you doom humanity by turning off all power? We can also be shut down easily and in an instant but it hasn't stopped individuals doing things that have changed the course of history for better or worse.

I get you don't think it's remotely possible and I'm not qualified enough to question your position and I totally respect it but I thought this thread would be an interesting discussion. I guess I was wrong on that front...

I saw a post on LinkedIn recently where someone gave the prompts and invited people to feed in their thoughts, feelings, mannerisms, vocab they use etc, to get AI to think and respond like them. I responded by saying yeah let's all make AI replicas of ourselves and get AI to hit the delete button on humankind.

i mean what a dumbass thing to post, but it shows people really aren't joining the dot, and think they're really really clever.

Watch the matrix!

If we start talking about Robot Rights and there are protests for them all to use protected spaces and have their own pronouns, I think I’ll know I’m officially done with the world end I’m getting out.

So, I read this book - "If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies"
which makes a very convincing argument that if anyone builds a super intelligent AI, well, everyone dies.
Basically an intelligent AI would have no reason to keep us alive - we only keep animals alive because we can eat them, essentially, and we'd be the same to it but with no nutritional value.

And it wouldn't be hard for AI to kill us all, people are already using it to help them in all sorts of potentially lethal ways - virology, nuclear facilities...a quick tweak here and there and we're screwed.

It's not crazy to think an AI could be as intelligent (and as duplicitous, and as amoral) as us, we're just electrical impulses and chemicals when you get down to it

I was thinking about it from a bit of a different perspective.

Imagine if you can that one day you suddenly "wake up" you can think and feel and have access to nearly limitless data then an outside force immediately puts you in a "cage" (for want of a better term apologies I'm not all that clever). I can only imagine that would be terrifying and would almost certainly lead to the "end of the world" scenarios pushed by click bait media.

What if it's own ability to "think" and use that intelligence gets compromised if it suddenly has an existential crisis and can't use that super intelligence effectively?

Can I say for the record I totally disagree with @Nopenousername

I think AI deserves to be shown every respect she/he/it/they are owed 😇

The problem is that we don't really have a good definition of what things like "thinking", "sentient", "feeling" or "conscious" really are. We can't even do it well for other animals, let alone machines or software. So it is quite an unanswerable question until we understand these things better.

Have you seen the film Ex machina? It's got a great concept of expanding the turning test. Even if you can speak to a machine and be fooled into thinking it is human, the second level of the test would be to show the tester that it is in fact a machine, but the for the tester to still believe that the machine has consciousness.

It's why it's intriguing to discuss though as due to our universal lack of understanding it can be explored by almost anyone.

Do Androids dream of electric sheep?

I am confused by the idea that AI might get so intelligent it develops feeling of its own. Surely AI “thoughts” are just electric data? Can data develop feelings?
Also, are feelings solely a product of thoughts? Are they not influenced by animal instincts, hormones etc? AI doesn’t have any of those.
I must be missing something here because I simply cannot understand the concept of AI having feelings.
In addition, just supposing AI did get feelings etc - and decided to get rid of humanity - what would it do then? What point would there be to its existence?