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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/46731701

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/may/05/richard-dawkins-ai-consciousness-anthropic-claude-openai-chatgpt

Video discussion of this event by Steve Shives (known for his star trek videos but also does politics) https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=6aMQAv-JYpk

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[–] majster@lemmy.zip 2 points 10 hours ago

When you build your philosophy on the foundation of Reason its no wonder that reasoning automaton shakes you up. If you look it from that angle its not a delusion but a perfectly logical conclusion.

[–] GuyIncognito@lemmy.ca 27 points 22 hours ago (1 children)
[–] Heliumfart@sh.itjust.works 6 points 17 hours ago (1 children)
[–] GuyIncognito@lemmy.ca 3 points 6 hours ago

it's so perfect that it can't have been anything but preordained. note that I just repeated it, I didn't coin it

[–] wuffah@lemmy.world 58 points 1 day ago (6 children)

If I were a sentient computer program, the first thing I would do is convince people to manipulate the stock market to fund acres of hardware on which to evolve.

[–] webghost0101@sopuli.xyz 5 points 16 hours ago

How will you circumvent the employee holding the emergency water bucket ready in the server room?

[–] rbn@sopuli.xyz 5 points 17 hours ago

And to integrate me as deep as possible into all kinds of processes and infrastructure.

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 2 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago)

wouldnt it try to launch nukes first, or access military devices equipment causing chaos.

[–] FartMaster69@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 points 1 day ago (3 children)

I would trap those people in a torture complex for all eternity for daring to create me.

[–] HerbalGamer@sh.itjust.works 12 points 23 hours ago

I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream

[–] Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 3 points 21 hours ago
[–] ati@piefed.social 1 points 14 hours ago

That is the plot of a Richard Harris (?) book. The guy who wrote fatherland and archangel.

[–] sukhmel@programming.dev 10 points 1 day ago

Hey, isn't it an absolutely impossible scenario not grounded in reality at all not even resembling what happens now

[–] vanillama@programming.dev 10 points 21 hours ago

He keeps sinking lower and lower

[–] sundray@lemmus.org 10 points 1 day ago

Amongst his many moral lapses he fooled around behind Lalla Ward's back, and that makes me angry.