Stuart Russell

to just switch it off and throw it in the trash when it breaks.

I think it's essential for us to keep machines in the cognitive space where they are machines and not bring them into the cognitive space where they're people.

Because we will make enormous mistakes by doing that.

And I see this every day, even just with the chatbots.

So the chatbots, in theory, are supposed to say, I don't have any feelings.

I'm just an algorithm.

But in fact, they fail to do that all the time.

They are telling people that they are conscious.

They are telling people that they have feelings.

They are telling people that they're in love with the user that they're talking to.

And people flip because, first of all, it's very fluent language, but also a system that is identifying itself as an I, as a sentient being.

They bring that object into the cognitive space that we normally reserve

for other humans.

And they become emotionally attached.

They become psychologically dependent.

They even allow these systems to tell them what to do.

Yeah.

So there was a television series called Humans.

In Humans, we have extremely capable humanoid robots doing everything.

And at one point, the parents are talking to their teenage daughter, who's very, very smart.