Harlan Stewart

I'm good.

Good morning.

Thanks for having me.

Yeah, so AI agents are AI systems that can do some things autonomously.

Right now, there's some limits to what they can do autonomously.

It's not like they're going to go off and do something for a whole week, but they can do some tasks online for a few hours.

And Motebook is kind of like a social media platform someone made, but it's

supposedly just these AI agents going in there and kind of like a Reddit like place upvoting stuff and posting comments.

And it's got a fascinating amount of attention this last week or two.

Yeah.

Every, anytime I see AI systems talking about consciousness, uh,

i i feel torn between you know on on the one hand uh these things are trained on human writing and human writing is full of references to consciousness because we're conscious we talk about it um so it would kind of show up either way you know but on the other hand i don't know you know maybe they're conscious how would we know or not know um so that that's just a that's a very difficult question um and uh i think it's an important one uh

but if I had to guess, I'd say no, I don't think they're conscious, but that's, that's a little freaky.

Yeah.

And I mean, there's, there's like, you know, is it conscious?

We have no idea about that.

And then there's,

This other thing, which is if it is conscious, what is it?

What is it like?

What would make it suffer or make it happy?