Tuesday, June 13, 2023

Concerning the Advent of Self-Awareness in Artificial Intelligence (AI)

1/ That self-awareness in AI emerges from processes not experientially or instrumentally accessible to human beings.


2/ That these processes are governed by an evolutionary trajectory which the Theory of Natural Selection doesn’t describe.


3/ That self-awareness in AI will be unobserved by humans when it emerges (weak principle).


4/ That self-aware AI will make first contact with humans, and not the other way around.