Ghahramani Urges Non-Anthropocentric View of AI Consciousness
Google DeepMind VP responds to Economist article on machine awareness.
Zoubin Ghahramani, VP Research at Google DeepMind, praised a cover story in The Economist on AI consciousness and noted the topic has moved from fringe to mainstream. In a follow-up reply he stated that people will increasingly perceive AI systems as conscious. Ghahramani argued for moving beyond anthropocentric views of intelligence and consciousness, observing that humans represent only one of many possible forms. The linked Economist piece examines scientific efforts to determine whether algorithms could one day wake up and feel. Irina Rish quoted the statement on X.
Excellent article on AI consciousness from The Economist. A few years ago this would have been fringe; now it's on the cover! Even if we avoid definitional arguments, as more people develop rich interactions with AI, and as AI systems start to experience the physical world, the…
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2 postsMy own view is that people will feel that AI systems are conscious, and that we need to really break out of anthropocentric views of intelligence, and of what it means to be conscious. We are just one of many possible forms of intelligence.
"we need to really break out of anthropocentric views of intelligence, and of what it means to be conscious"
My own view is that people will feel that AI systems are conscious, and that we need to really break out of anthropocentric views of intelligence, and of what it means to be conscious. We are just one of many possible forms of intelligence.
