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KJ_StErOiDs posted...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ol2WP0hc0NY

I'm not convinced for a second. Consciousness, sentience, self awareness, whatever - it doesn't mean that it's alive if it has these traits. At least not as I would currently define the term "alive". But there has been *a lot* of redefining of traditional words lately, so who knows in a decade from now what the cultural majority would view as 'living'.

I think top 3, maybe even the single greatest mistake we can make in regards to this technology is to give it our faces. Literally. Robots, and then robots powered by AI in the shell of a humanoid form is (IMO) a plausible end to our species as we know it. Humans can already empathize with fictional and animated characters, and inanimate objects... Not only can I see people campaigning for their personhood, but also right to govern and accept positions of power. Actually fighting to put machines in authority positions.

To me this sounds like insanity, a technophobic's fever dream. But..
I also look at the social trends of the world we live in right now, and I truly think we are dumb enough as species to actually do something like that. In which case we really do deserve whatever dystopian Terminator end we get.