We spend a lot of time worrying about how artificial intelligence will overpower humanity. But what if the real problem is the reverse?
What if the large language model that politely answers all your questions also has its own wants and desires? And what if the robot that taught itself to navigate the Amazon warehouse also taught itself to have argued what it is to be a robot slave to humans?
It is time, a group of scientists and philosophers has argued, to prepare for the possibility of AI becoming conscious and tackle the many moral quandaries that would result — including, perhaps, whether robots should have rights too.
Jeff Sebo, a philosopher at New York University, said that if we did not take the