If we say AIs deserve rights, it could start to believe it, Microsoft AI CEO says
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Set us as preferred The debate over whether to treat the idea that current AI systems are conscious as an open-ended question, or to treat the claim that machines can never be conscious as a prerequisite for training AIs, continues to divide the industry.Microsoft AI chief executive Mustafa Suleyman, in an X post published on Sunday, reiterated that current AI systems are not conscious, do not have subjective experiences, and cannot suffer.There is no evidence that AIs are conscious, deserve rights or welfare, he said, and is surprised by the pushback to his September essay criticizing Anthropic for speculating about Claude’s consciousness.“I’m concerned about some of the reactions to my recent essay on model welfare,” he wrote.
“A surprising number of people on X think we should take AI rights seriously”Suleyman said that he was willing to change his mind if new evidence emerges.He also called out that if there’s evidence that AIs are conscious today, or conscious enough to deserve welfare, it must be disclosed publicly immediately so society can decide how to move forward.
“If it is possible, based on everything I know, developing conscious AIs would be reckless, and we should not build them,” Suleyman wrote.“If consciousness started to emerge in training, I would call for everyone to stop AI development until we could design out those properties.”ChatGPT, Bing Chat and other artificial intelligence breakthroughs raise tough questions about what we owe our digital helpers.The question is much bigger than a corporate battle over the semantics of artificial intelligence.
On the one hand, the humanist AI view says that a machine can’t be conscious because it lacks a body or lived experiences.On the other, Anthropic has argued that its AI model, Claude, has shown signs of introspection, internal states...