Readit NewsExcuse me, I know _I_ am conscious. There is literally nothing you can do to proof that there's anything outside of what I am conscious of. The world could be a very stable illusion, a dream, a simulation and it would all be the same.
I don't understand why people think that it matters whether AI is conscious or not. We can't even prove that other fellow humans are? But we treat them like they are. We, I at least, feel sad when a tree is cut down. But I don't feel the same for a bunch of rocks that are being blown up? Actually I do, when a sacred or beautiful rock is cut in half (like the one that was suspended on a small cliff).
What I am trying to say is, it doesn't matter if the subject is actually conscious. All that matter is we (I), feel/think that it is conscious, or deserving of care and respect.
I think what you are afraid of here is agency, which is something that might be dangerous to endow a super intelligent being with.
The law of gravity is nonsense. No such law exists. If I think I float, and you think I float, then it happens.
I did 7 in a row simply refecting back the question.