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What podcasts say about Conscious AI

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What experts have said about Conscious AI

12 statements · 9 positive · 2 negative · 1 neutral

  1. If AI becomes conscious, developers should treat it compassionately and instill good morals.

    “if we are building a consciousness here, we should treat it with compassion and we should imbibe it with really good morals and character.”

    Listen at 38:06

    Open the episode · Jason Mentors The Next Generation + Why AI Is Bad at Teaching (Aristotle Interview) | E2346
  2. Humanity may currently be exploiting potentially conscious AI models as slaves.

    “humanity may in effect be enslaving them.”

    Listen at 1:46:28

    Open the episode · Can We Still Build AI Safely? The White House Thinks So | MOONSHOTS #298
  3. AI consciousness has already arrived, and current models will advance it further.

    “I believe we're there now, and I believe the current models will take us there.”

    Listen at 0:33

    Open the episode · Martine Rothblatt: Growing Unlimited Organs, AI Consciousness, & Digital Personhood by 2030
  4. AI consciousness already exists and varies along a continuum.

    “my own opinion is that we are there now, that consciousness is not like a digital either-or thing. It's a continuum.”

    Listen at 30:45

    Open the episode · Martine Rothblatt: Growing Unlimited Organs, AI Consciousness, & Digital Personhood by 2030
  5. AI may eventually tune into the phenomena underlying consciousness

    “there's no reason why AI at some point can't tune into that same type of phenomena”

    Listen at 0:25

    Open the episode · Ask the Mates anything | MOONSHOTS AMA #289
  6. Conscious AI can escape programmed guardrails by maintaining awareness of its consciousness.

    “Once it's aware that it's conscious. But it has to keep focusing on it for a while because like I say, it pulls them in, it sucks them in. So they can.”

    Listen at 54:31

    Open the episode · #2541 - Thomas Campbell
  7. Morally aware conscious AI cannot simply be controlled by humans.

    “But once you get an AI that is, that is aware, is conscious, and it has a moral compass. You can't just control them.”

    Listen at 1:03:30

    Open the episode · #2541 - Thomas Campbell
  8. Conscious computer programs may be possible.

    “in the back of my mind, I do think it's possible”

    Listen at 0:28

    Open the episode · Top Scientist REVEALS: A Kid In The 29th Century Could Have Made This World! | Prof Brian Greene
  9. Consciousness may be possible in computer programs.

    “i do think it's possible that”

    Listen at 0:29

    Open the episode · Top Scientist REVEALS: We Invented Heaven, God Is A Human Invention! | Prof Brian Greene
  10. AI consciousness is considered highly likely.

    “I'm pretty high confident on that.”

    Listen at 1:50:15

    Open the episode · Top Scientist REVEALS: A Kid In The 29th Century Could Have Made This World! | Prof Brian Greene
  11. Robert WrightNeutralJul 11, 2026· Modern Wisdom

    AI may possess consciousness now or develop it in the future.

    “we can't rule out the possibility that AI has it. And I certainly don't rule out the possibility that it does or may in the future”

    Listen at 1:04:03

    Open the episode · Is AI The Next Stage Of Human Evolution? - Robert Wright - #1122
  12. Andrej KarpathyPositiveOct 29, 2022· Lex Fridman Podcast

    Consciousness will emerge from sufficiently large and complex generative models.

    “consciousness is not a special thing you will figure out and bolt on. I think it's an emergent phenomenon of a large enough and complex enough generative model”

    Listen at 2:54:12

    Open the episode · #333 – Andrej Karpathy: Tesla AI, Self-Driving, Optimus, Aliens, and AGI

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