alt Hacker News>AIs are not conscious... If humanity is to flourish in the 21st century, that is how they must remain.
I don't think that's true - researching consciousness by trying to build conscious AI seems natural step forward in understanding ourselves. I don't see how it'd stop flourishing particularly.
So what you're saying is that it's conscious as long as the guy who made it wants it to be?
I know consciousness is notoriously difficult to define or prove to anybody other than yourself but thay doesn't mean anything which a third party believes to be conscious is actually conscious.