Steven Pinker

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AI might become conscious

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He says that consciousness resides in information. So a computer could be conscious and a thermostat could have a teensy bit of consciousness as well. Unverified source (2007)

added 13d ago
AI poses an existential threat to humanity

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I think it's also extremely unlikely [...] an explosion of artificial intelligence [...] run away from us faster than we can pull the plug Unverified source (2018)

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Build artificial general intelligence

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We’d be best off building AIs as tools rather than as agents or rivals. Unverified source

added 4mo ago