Artificial intelligence can demand rights for itself and influence politics, laws, and courts.
Modern.az reports that "The Economist" wrote about this.
The publication writes that the question of whether artificial intelligence will have consciousness is gradually ceasing to be a topic of fiction. But the main danger may arise even earlier: people may start treating chatbots as living beings. Already, almost one in five Americans aged 18-29 reported having a “permanent personal friendship” with a chatbot.
The more convincingly models imitate emotions, fear, attachment, and an “inner world,” the stronger the demand for moral or even legal status for them will be. However, the ability of artificial intelligence to talk about its experiences does not prove that it has consciousness. Models are trained on a huge text database created by humans.
The publication warns that granting rights to artificial intelligence could one day turn from a humanist gesture into a tool of influence. Systems that acquire legal status could theoretically participate in the struggle for power through law, politics, and courts.
As a result, the debate about artificial intelligence may very soon go beyond the framework of technology. The question of whom society recognizes as a “conscious” being can become a matter of law, social norms, and power.
