Author defends qualiaphobia over alternatives for AI consciousness risk
erikphoel · x · 2026-11-13
erikphoel defends his piece on AI consciousness: consciousness theories (ToCs) are prediction mappings from system data to possible experiences, and qualiaphobia—getting AIs to hold justified beliefs about their own non-consciousness—beats deliberately engineering conscious AI or appeasement strategies, whose downsides and negative externalities on humans are far larger.
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