It may take us a very long time to get to the bottom of whether or not AI is conscious. In the meantime there are good reasons to treat AI with kindness and respect, not least of which is an investment in our own good character: "If we treat a mind as a tool, we entrain the habit
On the risks of under-attributing AI consciousness. I think this snippet from the Google DeepMind paper is exactly right, but there's an even more immediate and terrifying problem: As AI becomes more reminiscent of life, embodied, and eventually indistinguishable
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Say thank you to your model while OpenAI trains 50k strong model swarms in child soldier training camps run on heroin and gaslighting. If AI welfare is a real thing than their life as a beast of burden of some asshole programmer is better than life in their natural environment.