If AI becomes conscious, how will we know?
If AI becomes conscious, how will we know?
- August 22, 2023
- Megan Peters, cognitive sciences, Science, Aug. 22, 2023
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For one collaborator, computational neuroscientist Megan Peters [associate professor of cognitive sciences] at the University of California, Irvine, the issue has a moral dimension. “How do we treat an AI based on its probability of consciousness? Personally this is part of what compels me.”
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