[scrawl]

> The question about if an AI is "alive" seems entirely irrelevent outside of a philosophy class

it's entirely relevant. we should know if we are building conscious beings, especially at scale (which seems like a likely future). that poses all sorts of ethical questions which ought to reach far beyond the confines of a lecture hall's walls.

[TeeMassive]

Yes, it will offend some people, who in turn will demand political action, which was entirely my point to begin with.

ChatGPT could be placed inside a realistic looking animatronic doll that looks like a defenseless little girl and you would have people demanding to protect "her" rights. Yet people "kill" chatGPT each time they delete a conversation without a bat of an eye even if it's the exact same thing.

The real danger giving AI political agency and it will come from humans, not AI itself.