These questions are inspired by, although heavily modified, the game Detroit: Become Human. The game itself is a story telling masterpiece, a visual marvel and quite an important game to have been made in this format, if you ask me. Anyhow!
Answer, if you will, based on both the current state of artificial intelligence and how you imagine it to be in the future.
- Would you let artificial intelligence take care of your children?
My answer: no. Not now, not ever, unless we somehow could be certain that the artificial intelligence in question is capable of the same level of empathy, self sacrifice and understanding of paralinguistic information as humans. Which we can never be, I think?
- Could you have a romantic, platonic or other relationship that imitates interpersonal relationships with artificial intelligence?
My answer: I am unsure. I don't known whether it's a fair comparison, but I'd like to liken it either to consuming pornography and using sex dolls - consumption and usage being the keywords - or to buying sex, renting a partner for a day and such transactional relationships. I have no experience of the latter, so this might be prejudicial. Who knows, maybe I'd get hooked like that man I once saw on the news who exclusively has relationships with sex dolls...
- Do you believe that artificial intelligence will ever gain consciousness?
My answer: this might contradict my answer to the first question, and borrow some sentiments from my answer to the second question - but also judging from how people interact with LLMs nowadays - as far as our perception of it goes, "yes". Perhaps in the same way that I think that the debate over whether there is true altruism or not is pointless since an act that benefits its recipient results in those benefits being perceived as such regardless of its intent, as long as we perceive artificial intelligence as, well, intelligent or conscious or humanlike to a sufficient degree, we won't bother to see the difference in a lot of everyday situations.
What do YOU think? ๐
Like a nanny or parent? No. I would not have kids unless I wanted to be a parent and raise and take care of them.
Like an occasional babysitter? Still no. I would want those opportunities for my children to connect with their "village"; to bond with, learn from, and be protected by other adults around them outside our tiny family unit.
No. It's very important for me that the people I choose to spend my time with also choose to spend their time with me, because they enjoy my company as I enjoy theirs.
The day I can properly define and measure consciousness I might have an answer... right now I can only speak from my gut: I really hope not.
I don't think it would do any good, for them to "exist", nor for our (for lack of a better word) "souls". We really don't need to invent a new species to torment/enslave for our pleasure.