AI that seems conscious is coming – and that’s a huge problem, says Microsoft AI’s CEO
By Eric Hal Schwartz, TechRadar
AI companies extolling their creations can make the sophisticated algorithms sound downright alive and aware. There’s no evidence that’s really the case, but Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman is warning that even encouraging belief in conscious AI could have dire consequences.
Suleyman argues that what he calls “Seemingly Conscious AI” (SCAI) might soon act and sound so convincingly alive that a growing number of users won’t know where the illusion ends and reality begins.
