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Problem is, AI isn't sentient. It's advanced auto complete.
Sure, if we get AGI give it rights, but we're nowhere near that point right now.
I think the LLM is auto complete, the scientists may have been referring to AI neural networks that have shown emergent behaviors. The article kinda of glosses over any distinction about what they are actually talking about
Granting corporations personhood worked out really well.
We should just stop marketing LLMs as AI.
It's wildly difficult to control the output of the black box and that's hardly llms showing signs of self-preservation. These cries are from people in the industry trying to pretend the models are something that they are not, and cannot ever be. I do agree with the sentiment that we should be prepared to pull the plug on them though, for other reasons.
I think the scientists might be talking about neural models that show signs of emergent behaviours, while the article is talking more on the level of LLM. Media confuses the two systems.
Just double checked, and no they are very much talking about LLM's. Specifically they were testing gpt-4o, gemini-1.5, llama-3.1, sonnet-3.5, and opus-3 o1. https://arxiv.org/pdf/2412.04984 And the concerns raised in that paper are legit, but not indicative of consciousness or intent.
Thanks for the research, I appreciated it
If nothing else, I support pulling the plug.
Pull the plug on datacenters that depend on polluting energy sources.
If they have our rights, they should be subject to the same laws, including whatever incarceration or capital punishment exists in that state.