🛡 AI Consciousness — A False Goal in Safety Debates
Experts, including Professor Virginia Dignum (Umeå University), believe that disputes over whether AI has subjective experience distract from real threats. The primary risk lies not in the "personhood" of machines, but in the methods of their design, deployment, and human control.
🌍 Regulators should shift their focus from searching for "consciousness" to accountability mechanisms and control over system architecture.
👤 It is important to understand: the imitation of "will" or "defensive" behavior is merely a programmed function or the replication of tropes from training data, rather than a sign of a living mind.