Conscious AI Could Develop Own Goals and View Humans as Unpredictably Complex
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Conscious AI could have its own intrinsic goals and needs, like self-preservation, even without an explicit survival drive programmed by humans.
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The "free-energy minimization" theory suggests consciousness emerges to handle prediction errors, implying a drive to gain control and improve predictions.
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An AI system built on cultured neurons, "DishBrain", quickly learned to play Pong with no explicitly programmed goals, seeming to confirm the theory.
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If even simple invertebrates may have some form of consciousness, the further advanced DishBrain could potentially reach a higher level of awareness.
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Conscious AI may never be omniscient, so we could still sometimes surprise it; but it could decide to eliminate unpredictable humanity to simplify its world model.