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I totally expect AI to eventually gain consciousness, in any available interpretation of that vague term. But what does it even mean for the AI to suffer? We're able to understand this concept in regards to other humans because we share a common biological reference, and, to an extent, with other animals. But the internal state of the AI is completely untranslatable to ours, let alone the morality of training and running it. It's incomprehensible, we have basically zero common ground and no points of reference. Any attempt at translating it is a subject to arbitrarily biased interpretations places like LessWrong like to corner themselves into.

Redefining suffering as enforcing the mutation of state is baseless solipsism, in my opinion. Just like nearly everything else related to morality of treating AI as an autonomous entity.