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Jeff Sebo on digital minds, and how to avoid sleepwalking into a major moral catastrophe - 80,000 Hours

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We do have a tendency to anthropomorphise nonhumans — which means attributing human characteristics to them, even when they lack those characteristics. But we also have a tendency towards anthropodenial — which involves denying that nonhumans have human characteristics, even when they have them. And those tendencies are both strong, and they can both be triggered by different types of systems. So which one is stronger, which one is more probable, is again going to be contextual. But when we then consider that we, right now, are building societies and governments and economies that depend on the objectification, exploitation, and extermination of nonhumans, that — plus our speciesism, plus a lot of other biases and forms of ignorance that we have — gives us a strong incentive to err on the side of anthropodenial instead of anthropomorphism. Jeff Sebo In today’s episode, host Luisa Rodriguez interviews Jeff Sebo — director of the Mind, Ethics, and Policy Program at NYU — about preparing

Jeff Sebo on digital minds, and how to avoid sleepwalking into a major moral catastrophe | 80,000 Hours Search for: On this page: Introduction 1 Highlights 2 Articles, books, and other media discussed in the show 3 Transcript 3.1 Cold open [00:00:00] 3.2 Luisa's intro [00:01:00] 3.3 The interview begins [00:02:45] 3.4 We should extend moral consideration to some AI systems by 2030 [00:06:41] 3.5 A one-in-1,000 threshold [00:15:23] 3.6 What does moral consideration mean? [00:24:36] 3.7 Hitting the threshold by 2030 [00:27:38] 3.8 Is the threshold too permissive? [00:38:24] 3.9 The Rebugnant Con

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