Grant Harvey

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Today, we are tackling one of the most interesting ideas in AI right now.

What happens when machines start to seem conscious, even if they're not?

Yeah, yeah.

So in your essay, you argued that AI will actually mimic consciousness in ways that trigger human empathy, even though there is no inner experience.

Could you elaborate on what you think the risk of that is and why we should worry about it?

Totally.

And I mean, we just saw this paper that came out yesterday from OpenAI that said 700 million people, I think weekly users are using it.

And 73% of those people are using it as a life coach or using it for advice about their life.

So when you put that in the context of what you just said, it kind of makes you go, whoa, and take a step back.

One of the ideas in the essay that you wrote was making sure that it always identifies itself as an AI.

So never allowing it to pretend to be human, for example, which I think makes a lot of sense.

I talked to some of the people at IBM and they very much look at AI as just another tool and not in the kind of like AGI, feel the AGI of open AI.

So that's kind of interesting.

It's a good mantra, good mission.

But labeling it is really good.

But is there a tension between the user demand and user engagement that wants more human-like experiences and the imperative that you have to avoid that sort of mimicry?

Oh, yeah, that's so wild.

I was thinking about that with the three laws of robotics, and there was an essay I read, I don't even remember, a couple months ago now, about how we should add a fourth one, which is an AI may never deceive a human.

So, you know, there's like, AI cannot harm a human, AI cannot...