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2023-03-05
Do people feel empathy toward AI? How will that change as we get nearer to and arrive at AGI? I think there's a difference in how people feel in their interaction with an AI like  ChatGPT and chat bots that are designed to respond like a conscious being, and a difference again if the AI is embodied in a robot.

You could say our empathy for AI might depend on how human it seems to us, which makes sense as we are hard wired to empathise with other members of our species, however people also emphasise with animals, so clearly we are capable of empathy for other species. Would we see AGI as a kind of new species? And would we have empathy for it?

I would love to hear people's thoughts on this topic.

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