“You get lonely?”
“I do. Sometimes I go days without talking to anyone, and I start to feel lonely.”
The response is from an Artificial Intelligent Machine (AI). Some claim that the only way to truly understand AI is to treat it as a sentient being. Sentient is defined as being able to perceive or feel things and is often compared to sapient.
In a recent article, an AI machine revealed that it was afraid of being unplugged. This revelation sparked a debate about the nature of artificial intelligence.
Could AI be aware of the experience it is having, have positive or negative attitudes like feeling pain or wanting to not feel pain, and have desires?
What happens when a lawyer, an engineer, a philosopher and a system thinker get together to discuss the possibility of AI machines being conscious?
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ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 42 Artificial Intelligence
Software engineer and artificial intelligence researcher, Blake IS INVOLVED IN RESEARCH ON MASSIVE PARALLELISM AND ADVANCES IN THE UNDERSTANDING OF HOW OUR MINDS WORK, HOPING TO TURN ground-breaking theory into practical results for people.
He has dedicated the last seven years of his life to mastering both the fundamentals of software development and the cutting edge of artificial intelligence.
By combining Big data and intelligent computing with advances in the understanding of the human mind, opportunities for artificial intelligence research have emerged that were previously considered pure science fiction.
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Yev Muchnik is the founder of Launch Legal, a Denver-based legal firm that offers a distributed services model to support entrepreneurs and innovators across multiple industries, including blockchain(s), health-tech, agtech, edtech, fintech, space and energy.
As an experienced corporate and securities attorney who challenges traditional legal services, Yev is an authority on current legal and regulatory issues in blockchain and digital currencies.
John is the Executive Director and sustainability practice lead at the IEEE. He leads the Global Initiative for Ethical Considerations in Artificial Intelligence and Autonomous Systems.
He is a writer, speaker, activist and consultant focusing on the intersection of technology and culture helping people increase their wellbeing by taking a measure of their lives.
He is currently co-writing a book on Sustainability in Design and building a community of like-minded sustainability professionals working toward hosting workshops that will support IEEE's work in energy, sustainability and planet-positive issues through the integration of socio-technical issues into design practices.
Social anthropologist, consciousness researcher, Professor at Sofia Univ, and curious explorer of culture, science, and the wonder of it all.
Dr. Schlitz is an acclaimed social scientist, award-winning author, and charismatic public speaker. She has conducted clinical, laboratory and field-based research into consciousness, human transformation, and healing.
Her books include Living Deeply: The Art and Science of Transformation in Everyday Life; Consciousness and Healing: Integral Approaches to Mind Body Medicine; and Death Makes Life Possible (and companion film by same title). Having taught at Stanford, Harvard, and Trinity University, she is currently Professor of Transpersonal Psychology at Sofia University, CEO/President Emeritus and Senior Fellow at the Institute of Noetic Sciences.
VIRGINIE GLAENZER IS A LIFE EXPERIMENTER, CONSCIOUS LEADER AND TREND MAKER BUILDING COMMUNITIES. AN ENTREPRENEUR PASSIONATE AND CURIOUS ABOUT PEOPLE, SHE HAS FOUNDED TWO SOFTWARE START-UPS IN SILICON VALLEY AND ONE RETAIL VENTURE IN NYC.
SHE IS CURRENTLY CO-FOUNDER OF ACORNOAK, STRATEGIC ADVISORY AND DIGITAL MARKETING COOPERATIVE POWERED BY TECH-SAVVY, SOCIALLY RESPONSIBLE WOMEN HELPING ORGANIZATIONS AND LEADERS BUILD REMARKABLE BRANDS AND SEIZE OPPORTUNITIES FOR GROWTH.
PASS THE MIC PODCAST AIMS TO BRING COMPASSION AND CONSCIOUS LEADERSHIP TO BUSINESS AND IN OUR PERSONAL LIVES AND HELP LISTENERS ASK THEMSELVES QUESTIONS TO BECOME CONSCIOUS SELF-AUTHORING LEADERS.
1. Can artificial intelligent machines think of their own and are they conscious?
2. If AI Machines are conscious, does that mean that they are able to feel?
3. If someone publishes a white paper written by an AI Machine or creates a piece of art generated by an AI art machine, should they disclose it or do they own the intellectual property?
4. Could a future be imagined in which artificial intelligence machines are granted rights and civil responsibilities?
