Digital minds may not want humans as guardians, machine consciousness essayist argues
cccalum · x · 2026-10-12
Soenke Ziesche, a contributor to Perspectives on Machine Consciousness, notes humanity has never had to care for a moral patient smarter and more powerful than itself, and argues that digital minds, if conscious, may not want us as their guardians — a challenge to the mainstream alignment narrative of humans supervising AI.
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