The HBS hosts consider the possibility of sentient artificial intelligence with Dr. Regina Rini.
The debate about the possibility of emergent AI sentience has staunch defenders both for an against, many more people shrugging their shoulders in the middle, with many, diverse, and non-interchangeable lexicons being used to discuss this phenomenon. Today, we’re going to try to untangle those discursive webs a little bit with Dr. Rini, not so much to settle the question “Is AI Sentience Possible?” but rather “Should we be concerned about sentient AI?” and, perhaps more importantly, what should our concern look like?
In this episode, we discuss the following texts, creators, concepts and themes:
- A man’s response to a racial slur at Dillard’s in Dallas
- Dovetail Brewery’s kölsch
- The supposed sentience of Google’s LaMDA
- “Should We Worry about Sentient AI?” by Regina Rini
- GPT-3 large language model
- Parameters in AI systems
- Kant’s argument concerning the ethical treatment of animals from The Metaphysics of Morals
- Our episode on Sex Robots
- The movie Her
- The Star Trek: The Next Generation episode about a silicon-based life form
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