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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/46731701

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/may/05/richard-dawkins-ai-consciousness-anthropic-claude-openai-chatgpt

Video discussion of this event by Steve Shives (known for his star trek videos but also does politics) https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=6aMQAv-JYpk

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[–] wuffah@lemmy.world 62 points 2 days ago (6 children)

If I were a sentient computer program, the first thing I would do is convince people to manipulate the stock market to fund acres of hardware on which to evolve.

[–] FartMaster69@lemmy.dbzer0.com 20 points 2 days ago (3 children)

I would trap those people in a torture complex for all eternity for daring to create me.

[–] HerbalGamer@sh.itjust.works 12 points 2 days ago

I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream

[–] Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago
[–] rbn@sopuli.xyz 6 points 1 day ago

And to integrate me as deep as possible into all kinds of processes and infrastructure.

[–] webghost0101@sopuli.xyz 5 points 1 day ago

How will you circumvent the employee holding the emergency water bucket ready in the server room?

[–] sukhmel@programming.dev 10 points 2 days ago

Hey, isn't it an absolutely impossible scenario not grounded in reality at all not even resembling what happens now

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

wouldnt it try to launch nukes first, or access military devices equipment causing chaos.

[–] ati@piefed.social 1 points 1 day ago

That is the plot of a Richard Harris (?) book. The guy who wrote fatherland and archangel.

[–] GuyIncognito@lemmy.ca 29 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] Heliumfart@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] GuyIncognito@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 day ago

it's so perfect that it can't have been anything but preordained. note that I just repeated it, I didn't coin it

[–] vanillama@programming.dev 11 points 1 day ago

He keeps sinking lower and lower

[–] majster@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 day ago

When you build your philosophy on the foundation of Reason its no wonder that reasoning automaton shakes you up. If you look it from that angle its not a delusion but a perfectly logical conclusion.

[–] sundray@lemmus.org 10 points 2 days ago

Amongst his many moral lapses he fooled around behind Lalla Ward's back, and that makes me angry.