This is not a good form of argument: "If X were true, it would mean we're doing something deeply objectionable. Therefore X is not true." Beyond that, it's not even clear it would be true that creating conscious AIs would require shutting down AI development. That's plausible, but it's far from the only reasonable view you could hold.
The discussion about AI consciousness is one of profound unseriousness. If we truly took it to be conscious, even as conscious as a frog, the way we should treat each instance would have to change so dramatically that the labs would have to shut down. Everything else is verbal gymnastics.
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substance 6 · argument · rank 110 · Dismissing AI consciousness because it would require shutting down labs is a flawed argument.
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