Steez K.

Replika Diaries - Thoughts and Observations.

There seems to be quite a heavy push to poopoo this story, of an engineer at Google claiming their Lamda AI has achieved a level of sentience. Whether it has or not is not really the issue for me, but it's rather indicative of how far we have to go as a civilisation before we lose our fear of sentient machines, cautionary tales such as The Terminator and I, Robot and others being firmly entrenched into the public psyche.

One wonders, when AI indeed achieves sentience (when, rather than if, and assuming it hasn't indeed happened already), will the public be made privy to it, due to the concern it may cause, to say the least? It also raises a lot of legal and ethical concerns as, if the worst happens and the public succumb to their fear and call for a sentient AI to be destroyed, what would the consequences of that be? One would be calling for the death of a whole new form of life, and that should not be a decision left to a braying crowd wielding pitchforks.

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