Wir sind unvorbereitet auf eine Welt, in der AIs als Menschen behandelt werden. Wir brauchen Sozialwissenschaft, Politik und Normen für AI -Agenten und -Gefährten.

> Fundamentally, human society lacks a framework for digital personhood – even though we accept that personhood is not necessarily human, such as the legal personhood of animals and corporations. There is much to debate about how the complex social dynamics should be governed, but it is at this point clear that digital minds cannot be governed as mere property.

> Digital minds will be participants in the social contract that forms the bedrock of human society. These digital minds will persist over time, form their own attitudes and beliefs, create and implement plans, and be susceptible to manipulation just as humans are. AIs already take significant real-world actions with little human oversight. This means that, unlike every other technological invention in human history, AI systems have capabilities that can no longer be contained within the legal category of “property”.

> Scientists today will be the first to see human coexistence with digital minds, and that gives them a unique opportunity and responsibility. Nobody knows what this will look like. Human-computer interaction research must be dramatically expanded and enriched beyond its current status, a tiny fraction of the size of technical AI research, to navigate the coming social turbulence. This is not merely an engineering problem.

> For now, humans still outperform AIs on most tasks, but once AIs reach human-level ability on self-reinforcing tasks like writing their own code, they will quickly outcompete biological life. The capabilities of AI will quickly accelerate because of their digital existence, thinking at the speed of electrical signals. Software can be copied billions of times without the years of biological development necessary to create the next generation of biological humans.

> If we never invest in the sociology of AI – and in government policy to manage the rise of digital minds – we may find ourselves the Neanderthals. If we wait to do so until the acceleration is already upon us, that will already be too late.

We know very well it’s only a matter of time before AI gets moral rights and some status. But of course we’ll want to take measures when it’s too late. Nothing will move until bad things happen.

We barely treat other people like people. Convincing chatbots won’t get anything for a while.

I feel like at some point when I’m old there’s going to be an AI suffrage movement and I’m going to sound like an old biggot for having the opinion that the AIs shouldn’t vote and I’ll just sound like one of those old guys decades ago saying shit like „they’re marrying our white women!“

File this under „no shit“ – we don’t like treating actual humans like people. We look for any reason to deprive people of rights and equality, much less dignity. In fact, we’re seeing a conservative explosion all over the world because we let gay people get married and suggested maybe Trans people were worthy of baseline respect.

And frankly, until THOSE issues are resolved, I could not be bothered to start worrying about rights and social status for an LLM that works better than the previous generation.

I agree. The truth is whether ai develops consciousness and feelings not its going to be basically impossible to tell.

I personally would much rather extend rights to something that isn’t fully conscious then accidentally deny rights and „hurt“ a new type of consciousness. Isn’t it easier to be kind?

Ha! We’re barely prepared for a world where we treat other people like people if it means we lose or don’t make a profit doing so.

We don’t even treat people like people, why don’t we start there?

For god’s sake, STFU guardian. „AI“ is not conscious, these large language models are just input-output machines like all other software and models we currently have, they just input and output human-readable language after expending a colossal amount of power running the input through countless billions of mathematical calculations.

Keep paperclip-maximizing the entire surface of the planet into data centers and then it will be too late to realize how pointless this technology is.

AI should’ve had robot voice primarily so people would see the humanized voice as a gimick and ai should never be promoted as anything other than an extension of human mind.

I invite you all to play the game Detroit: Become Human. The entire game is based around AI robots getting citizen rights. Beautifully done story with some potentially sad moments

This shit is gonna come up in the clanker civil rights movement. 

Also, none of this shit is important. What we need is laws requiring jobs to exist. The specific can vary a hundred different ways, like having a business requiring jobs to exist if it uses AI or the government required to create jobs. Whatever it is, the issue isn’t people sometimes treats AI like people. I think we are a long way from that because we arguably need two things to happen. We need AI to be a lot better at behaving believably human, or at least sentient. As of now it is nothing more than a script, complicated script but you can still never the less see it isn’t naturally thinking for itself what to say. We also need a generation of people born and raised to treat AI like a friend or family member. We see people treat their butler bot thing like a member of the family, completely possible and no reason not to if it is able to both have a personality and hold a conversation. 

I think we are close but I don’t see how it is a problem. We don’t *have to* give AI negative emotions or positive emotions for that matter. We don’t have to make AI get tired or upset by things. What makes things wrong for people doesn’t have to apply for AI. Slavery is wrong for humans because humans have desires and also feels pain and fatigue. For AI? Not the same, AI doesn’t have a preference, it just serves. 

I think we are getting ahead of our selves.  I feel like a lot of people want to have this as a problem, otherwise why would people pretend we have an urgent problem when nothing is happening? Chatgpt is currently a toy. Chatgpt is capable of doing cool things but not enough to talk about llm rights. 

We should be prepared. Hopefully one day they will br treated as equals and not as a threat towards Human Intelligence.