Alex O’Connor on AI Consciousness, The Woke Agenda, and Debating Ben Shapiro

The Iced Coffee Hour

Graham Stephan/Jack Selby

Entrepreneurship, Business

4.6 • 679 Ratings

🗓️ 21 October 2024

⏱️ 133 minutes

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0:00.0	Amazon offers term time working to their employees, like Anton,
0:05.0	who's home to look after his daughters during their holidays.
0:10.0	Hello!
0:11.0	To him, this is the best sound in the world.
0:13.0	Daddy!
0:14.0	Actually, maybe that's the best sound of all.
0:23.2	Now that's term time working.
0:24.6	Offered at Amazon.
0:26.9	Ten weeks off guaranteed per year.
0:29.1	Mix of paid holiday and unpaid time off.
0:29.9	Conditions apply.
0:31.9	Wake up.
0:38.3	Is there any ethical dilemma with programming AI to be conscious? The problem is we don't really know what consciousness eats.
0:41.3	It's difficult to even give a definition of what consciousness is.
0:43.3	Do you think that the mind is just a product of atoms bumping into each other in your brain
0:47.3	that gives rise to this mysterious thing called consciousness?
0:50.3	And if that's the case, we should be able to make computers conscious.
0:53.3	Is there an ethical problem? Of course there is.
0:56.0	If we just created a bunch of conscious robots, and what are we going to do essentially like
1:00.0	enslave them, mistreat them, use them for our own purposes?
1:06.0	If we create a new conscious being for our exploitation, we do not have a very good track record
1:13.6	of taking care of conscious beings that we have full control over and have convinced ourselves
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