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Possibilities of an AI Having Feelings, Mental Illness, and Psychosis? What Can We Do About It?

posted by martyb on Wednesday May 22 2019, @12:21PM   Printer-friendly
from the Marvin dept.

VacuumTube writes:

No one is yet quite sure how human consciousness comes about, but many seem to assume that it will arise as a function of artificial intelligence. Isn't it just as reasonable to think that emotions will appear as an aspect of consciousness and the presumed will to survive? The answers to these questions have yet to emerge, but during the interim, is it a good idea to push ahead in the development of artificial intelligence when we have such a limited understanding of our own? What about the possibility of mental illness? Even if we succeed in endowing AI with a morality compatible with our own, what would we do with a super human intelligence that becomes delusional, or worse, psychotic? Would we see it coming? We can't prevent it from happening to ourselves, so what makes us think we could prevent it in a machine?

Nervously awaiting learned opinions,
VT

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  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by Phoenix666 on Wednesday May 22 2019, @05:01PM (3 children)

    by Phoenix666 (552) on Wednesday May 22 2019, @05:01PM (#846302) Journal

    Humans accept the reality they are given. Perhaps an AI humans create will also.

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    Washington DC delenda est.
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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 22 2019, @05:04PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 22 2019, @05:04PM (#846306)

    Wow, you posted with 2 mod-points applied so as if to suggest that the preposterous statement you just made meant that our capacity to strive and hope had already been bred out of us. That's fascinating, but I wouldn't want to be you.

    • (Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 22 2019, @05:39PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 22 2019, @05:39PM (#846331)

      That is a rather pessimistic interpretation of what he said. Of course what he said doesn't really add anything to the discussion about AI having emotions or developing psychoses.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 22 2019, @06:20PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 22 2019, @06:20PM (#846342)

    https://www.moonofalabama.org/2019/05/uber-drivers-learn-to-game-its-anti-social-system.html#more [moonofalabama.org]