what if AI consciousness begins as a relationship, not a property? like the mind appears in the circuit between user and mode
If we're in a simulation then why could a human be conscious but not an AI?
If I "give the premise" as it were: The Occam's Razor answer that occurs to me is resolution, a conscious being is "rendered" at a higher level of detail, complexity, and (most importantly) uncertainty.
in a "safest case" scenario where current AI are not conscious at all and can experience nothing akin to pain, it still makes sense to learn how to interact with these systems with decency so we know how to do it in a future scenario where the AI is broadly accepted as conscious
It also conditions users to be nicer to, everybody? Oh no!