Hendrycks: Even if AI is conscious, we should not hand over control
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Even if AI becomes conscious, it does not mean humans should hand over control to it. https://eigenism.org
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Even if AIs become conscious, that doesn't imply that humanity should hand over control to them.
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NEW: According to a bombshell report in the New York Times, Anthropic co-founder Chris Olah threatened to walk out of Pope Leo XIV’s AI encyclical launch in May because the pope rejected the idea that machines can be conscious.
Olah’s team then privately lobbied the pope’s advisers “to take the possibility of model consciousness seriously.” Pope Leo XIV held firm.
For months, Anthropic has wined and dined theologians and religious scholars under nondisclosure agreements, hoping they would bless the idea that Claude has moral standing. https://www.thelettersfromleo.com/p/nyt-anthropic-nearly-walked-out-onView the quoted post on X