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cubetime on Jan 28, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: AI will not kill us, says Microsoft Research chief

Consciousness has next-to-nothing to do with AI safety. People are concerned about software that acts like an agent, not software that has qualia.

placebo on Jan 28, 2015 [–]

While that (AI safety) is something that definitely should be taken care of, I find it has next to nothing to do with the type of rhetoric often cited in the media

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