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The Edge of Sentience by Jonathan Birch: Book Launch and Panel Discussion
This event took place on November 11, 2024 and was co-hosted by the NYU Mind, Ethics, and Policy Program and the Guarini Center for Environmental, Energy & Land Use Law at NYU School of Law.
About the event
Can octopuses feel pain and pleasure? What about crabs, shrimps, insects or spiders? How do we tell whether a person unresponsive after severe brain injury might be suffering? When does a fetus in the womb start to have conscious experiences? Could there even be rudimentary feelings in miniature models of the human brain, grown from human stem cells? What about AI?
These are questions about the edge of sentience, and they are subject to enormous, disorienting uncertainty. The stakes are i...
About the event
Can octopuses feel pain and pleasure? What about crabs, shrimps, insects or spiders? How do we tell whether a person unresponsive after severe brain injury might be suffering? When does a fetus in the womb start to have conscious experiences? Could there even be rudimentary feelings in miniature models of the human brain, grown from human stem cells? What about AI?
These are questions about the edge of sentience, and they are subject to enormous, disorienting uncertainty. The stakes are i...
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Peter Godfrey-Smith, "Nervous Systems, Functionalism, and Artificial Minds"
Просмотров 1,3 тыс.Год назад
This talk took place on October 4, 2023 and was hosted by the NYU Mind, Ethics, and Policy Program. About the talk Advances in AI have raised again the question of whether the biology of animal nervous systems matters to the mental characteristics of physical systems, especially consciousness. Godfrey-Smith argued that nervous systems are indeed special, and a conscious artificial mind will pro...
AI Consciousness Report: A Roundtable Discussion
Просмотров 2,4 тыс.Год назад
This event took place on Tuesday September 5, 2023 and was hosted by the NYU Mind, Ethics, and Policy Program. About the event This panel discussion featured four authors from the recently released and widely discussed AI consciousness report. This report argues for, and exemplifies, a rigorous and empirically grounded approach to AI consciousness: assessing existing AI systems in detail, in li...
Bob Fischer, "Why interspecies welfare comparisons are both important and difficult to make"
Просмотров 493Год назад
This talk took place on February 7, 2023 and was hosted by the NYU Mind, Ethics, and Policy Program. About the talk Humans regularly need to make decisions that involve trade-offs across species. When an action or policy might be good for some animals but bad for others, making a principled decision partly requires comparing these welfare impacts in a principled way. This, in turn, partly requi...
Susan Schneider and Jonathan Birch, "Investigating Nonhuman Consciousness"
Просмотров 2,3 тыс.2 года назад
This talk took place on December 7, 2022 and was hosted by the NYU Mind, Ethics, and Policy Program. About the talk Humans make many decisions that affect nonhumans without always knowing whether these nonhumans are conscious. Is there a test for nonhuman consciousness that can be useful for impact assessments and policy decisions despite the limitations on our knowledge about other minds? In t...
David Chalmers, "Are Large Language Models Sentient?"
Просмотров 19 тыс.2 года назад
This talk took place at New York University on October 13, 2022 and was hosted by the NYU Mind, Ethics, and Policy Program. About the talk Artificial intelligence systems-especially large language models, giant neural networks trained to predict text from the internet-have recently shown remarkable abilities. There has been widespread discussion of whether some of these language models might be...