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Seemingly conscious AI is a real threat. The AI Zombies are coming and you're not ready.
A man takes his own life after months of talking to a chatbot. Mustafa Suleyman, the CEO of Microsoft AI warns that seemingly conscious ai is coming.In this Thinking on Paper Pocket Edition, Mark Fielding and Jeremy Gilbertson Think On Paper about Mustafa Suleyman’s essay “Seemingly Conscious AI” and what happens when artificial intelligence begins to act alive.They explore Suleyman’s warning that these systems could trigger AI psychosis, emotional dependency, and misplaced empathy and the larger question of how humans will tell the difference between connection and code.The conversation touches on philosophical zombies, consciousness, guardrails, and the story of Adam Raines, whose death ignited the debate over responsibility and design in AI.Please enjoy the show.And remember: Stay curious. Be disruptive. Keep Thinking on Paper.Cheers,Mark & Jeremy
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Timestamps
(00:00) Teaser
(01:17) Adam Raine
(01:28) Who Is Mustafa Suleyman?
(02:36) The Run Up To Superintelligence
(03:57) What Is Seemingly Conscious AI?
(05:04) Philosophical Zombies
(06:14) ChatGPT Is Just A Word Predictor
(07:01) What Does It Take To Build A Seemingly Conscious AI?
(08:08) The Illusion Of Conscious AI
(09:59) How Different Are You To An AI?
(11:39) Repeating The Covid Dynamic
(13:27) OpenAI's Response To Adam Raine
(15:02) The Dystopian Seemingly Conscious Timeline
(18:18) Generation Text-Over-Talk
(18:52) The Utopian Seemingly Conscious AI Timeline
(21:22) AI Guardrails
(23:43) Adam Raine Chat Log
(26:18) Thinking On Paper
(27:01) We Should Build AI For People, Not To Be A Person
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