“If we accidentally make conscious or sentient #AI, we should be careful to avoid harms. But treating what's effectively a toaster as conscious when there are actual conscious beings out there which we harm on an epic scale, also seems like a big mistake.”
“... prawns could be capable of suffering, yet we kill around half a trillion prawns every year. Testing for #consciousness in prawns is hard, but nothing like as hard as testing for consciousness in AI,” he said.