Quick update from AE Studio: last week, Judd (AE's CEO) hosted a panel at SXSW with Anil Seth, Allison Duettmann, and Michael Graziano, entitled “The Path to Conscious AI” (discussion summary here[1]).

We’re also making available an unedited Otter transcript/recording for those who might want to read along or increase the speed of the playback.

Why AI consciousness research seems critical to us

With the release of each new frontier model seems to follow a cascade of questions probing whether or not the model is conscious in training and/or deployment. We suspect that these questions will only grow in number and volume as these models exhibit increasingly sophisticated cognition.

If consciousness is indeed sufficient for moral patienthood, then the stakes seem remarkably high from a utilitarian perspective that we do not commit the Type II error of behaving as if these and future systems are [...]

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(00:37) Why AI consciousness research seems critical to us

(03:45) Resources related to AI consciousness

The original text contained 1 footnote which was omitted from this narration.

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First published:
March 26th, 2024

Source:
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/ZcJDL4nCruPjLMgxm/ae-studio-sxsw-we-need-more-ai-consciousness-research-and

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Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.

“AE Studio @ SXSW: We need more AI consciousness research (and further resources)” by AE Studio, Cameron Berg, Judd Rosenblatt, phgubbins, Diogo de Lucena

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