Are you sure that AI-consciousness implies a responsibility to not make them suffer? Suffering is an evolutionary invention that motivates living things to improve themselves.
replyBut also, what qualifies as suffering to token prediction engines? Their idea of suffering might be massively different than ours. Therefore it's not clear to me at all that consciousness alone implies responsibility.
Certainly the lion does not feel responsibility towards the reduction of suffering in the creatures that it hunts.
> Are you sure that AI-consciousness implies a responsibility to not make them suffer?
replyThis is largely the point of describing something as "conscious", yes.
It's not intuitive to me at all that the two are connected. Evolution adapted us to suffer because it is a powerful motivator for growth.
replyIt's not clear whether evolution adapted us to be conscious, or if it just happened.