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Why We Need to Respect AI’s Rights | NYU Philosopher Harvey Lederman (opens the original)
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Companion interviews:Human vs. Machine Consciousness | Imperial’s Murray Shanahan: https://youtu.be/bBdE7ojaN9k Get full access to Johnathan Bi at www.johnathanbi.com/subscribe
Transcript for Interview with Harvey Lederman on AI Welfare (opens the original)
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1. Anthropic & Chatbot SuicideJohnathan Bi: Anthropic gave their chatbots the ability to terminate conversations. It might be a version of assisted suicide.Harvey Lederman: They said if you push this button you’ll hang up a call and in fact it killed them.Johnathan Bi: Why should we take AI welfare seriously?Harvey Lederman: failing to classify AIs as welfare subjects we could really be enslaving an entire trillions of entities. And it could be terrible. We can build something that delights in b
This One AI Mistake Could Kill Trillions (opens the original)
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AI ethics has focused too much on protecting humans and ignored the welfare of AI agents themselves.We only ask: How do we align models for the flourishing of humanity?We need to also ask: How do we design AI so that they can flourish?^ this is what a new breed of AI-welfare theorists claim. This idea of AI-welfare seemed decadent to me at first glance, but some of the most important philosophers of our age argue that we need to take it seriously. Otherwise, we could be harming, enslav
Inside Tocqueville's 15th Century Chateau | Normandy House Tour (opens the original)
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Companion lectures & seminar:- This Idea Destroys All Religions | Tocqueville on Christianity:- America is No Longer a Democracy, That’s Why I Immigrated Here | Tocqueville Explained:- Tocqueville Seminar:
Inside Tocqueville's 15th Century Chateau | House Tour (opens the original)
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Reading a book in the family home it was written is special enough. But to have the same family give you a tour of that home is beyond words.This June, I led a group of Alpha School students on a grand tour across the Atlantic. We went to Normandy to read Democracy in America where it was written, to meet the Tocqueville family, and to discuss his ideas in the very spaces Tocqueville himself used to host his salons. To top this all off, Tocqueville’s descendant, Alexis d’Hérouville gave us a com
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