‘A deeply weird question’: Inside the Berkeley conference debating if AI can feel pain
Philosophers and tech workers met in Berkeley to discuss the potential for artificial intelligence to experience pain, emotions, or moral agency.
Could chatbots have souls? Learn to love? Refuse military service? Philosophers and tech workers gathered last weekend at the Lighthaven compound to figure it out.
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