Taylor Lecture 2024, 'AI consciousness and neo-feudalism', Prof David Braddon-Mitchell (Sydney)

Philosophy at Otago is pleased to present the second of two Dan and Gwen Taylor public lectures, this one presented by Professor David Braddon-Mitchell from the University of Sydney.
David investigates how naturalistic theories of consciousness have been used to argue that Large Language Models (LLMs) are either conscious, or getting close. He'll then address the common response that LLMs are just predicting sentences and are as dumb as a toaster, explaining why this view is mistaken. David then describes how society might function if AI, robots, and factories are all owned by the richest corporations and individuals, a state which seems more and more likely, leading to less utilisation for human resources, the wealthy 'owners' needing only a connection to raw resources, AI producing everything they need. Unless AI is brought into public ownership, 99% of the population might be plunged into unprecedented poverty.
There is, of course, a hopeful possibility: the post-scarcity society. But achieving this, David argues, will require action starting now to have a decent chance of becoming a reality.

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