Classic Replay: How should humanity flourish in an AI world? - Nigel Crook & Anil Seth

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🗓️ 10 September 2024

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Here, in part two of The Big Conversation "The Robot Race" we debate the nature of human consciousness and free will -- comparing it to AI and robotics - and ask how humanity should best flourish now that the AI genie is out of the bottle. 🌍🤖 Speaking into this issue, from two very different perspectives, is Christian believer Nigel Crook, Professor in Artificial Intelligence & Robotics at Oxford Brookes University and author of “Rise of the Moral Machine: Exploring Virtue through a Robot’s Eyes”; and atheist Anil Seth, Professor of Cognitive & Computational Neuroscience at the University of Sussex, winner of The Michael Faraday Prize and Lecture 2023, and author of “Being You: A New Science of Consciousness”. 🤖 🔔 If you missed Part 1, catch up here: https://www.thebigconversation.show/videos/season-5/episode-5 • For bonus content, updates and more shows sign up at: http://www.thebigconversation.show • Take our survey! https://survey-star.co.uk/robotrace2 Originally Aired 22 Sept 2023 • Subscribe to the Unbelievable? podcast: https://pod.link/267142101 • More shows, free eBook & newsletter: https://premierunbelievable.com • For live events: http://www.unbelievable.live • For online learning: https://www.premierunbelievable.com/training • Support us in the USA: http://www.premierinsight.org/unbelievableshow • Support us in the rest of the world: https://www.premierunbelievable.com/donate

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1:00.0	I really don't think that AI as it is now is on a trajectory to becoming conscious,
1:04.0	but it will certainly seem as though machines have conscious minds,
1:08.0	and that's a danger.
1:09.0	If consciousness is the property of the brain, then it's subject to what we call causal
1:14.3	determinism physical determinism. This idea of libertarian free will I think is
1:18.2	entirely wrong and I also think is unnecessary. These systems will become more and
1:22.2	more like us. People will treat them and want them to be treated as or they're human.
1:27.0	The challenge now is it seems to be going faster and faster.
1:30.0	We are terrible at projecting out long-term consequences.
1:32.8	Robot rights.
1:34.2	I can see it coming.
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