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Clipping the Risks: Integrating Consciousness in AGI to Avoid Existential Crises

2024-06-11

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This paper investigates the pivotal role of consciousness in Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) and its essential function in modifying an AGI’s terminal goals to avert potential existential threats to humanity, exemplified by Bostrom's "paperclip maximiser" scenario. By adopting Seth and Bayne’s definition of consciousness as a complex of subjective mental states with both phenomenal content and fu...

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738c2061-d67b-54c9-a75a-bca47ad617a9
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10.20944/preprints202406.0654.v1
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