Comment by Daniela Amodei

The reason we chose fully autonomous weapons and mass domestic surveillance as the areas where we simply can't say yes is because the technology is so new that we do not believe the laws may be perfectly designed to account for how the technology cou...

It is important that intellectually, we keep the possibility open that even if models are not conscious the way a human is, there might be things going on inside them that are complicated, mysterious and that could be worth considering.

The reason we chose fully autonomous weapons and mass domestic surveillance as the areas where we simply can't say yes is because the technology is so new that we do not believe the laws may be perfectly designed to account for how the technology cou...