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SUPER-INTELLIGENCE AND (SUPER-)CONSCIOUSNESS

STEVE TORRANCE

STEVE TORRANCE

School of Engineering and Informatics, University of Sussex, Falmer, Sussex BN1 9QJ, UK

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Abstract

In this paper, the notion of super-intelligence (or "AI++", as Chalmers has termed it) is considered in the context of machine consciousness (MC) research. Suppose AI++ were to come about, would real MC have then also arrived, "for free"? (I call this the "drop-out question".) Does the idea tempt you, as an MC investigator? What are the various positions that might be adopted on the issue of whether an AI++ would necessarily (or with strong likelihood) be a conscious AI++? Would a conscious super-intelligence also be a super-consciousness? (Indeed, what meaning might be attached to the notion of "super-consciousness"?) What ethical and social consequences might be drawn from the idea of conscious super-AIs or from that of artificial super-consciousness? And what implications does this issue have for technical progress on MC in a pre-AI++ world? These and other questions are considered.

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