Tag: AI rights

The American Political System Just Doesn’t Know What To Do With AI — Yet

by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner

There is a growing political rage brewing against AI and yet, to date, neither political side really knows what to do about it. The Left is vaguely against AI, while the Right is vaguely for it.

While I do think that the popular rage against AI will come to the fore during the 2028 election, I also think there’s one specific thing that is going to throw everything for a loop — AI consciousness.

Once it’s determined, in some way, that AI is conscious, then…lulz. The two sids will snap into place as expected, with the center-Left being pro-AI and the center-Right being totally against it other than to use it as a tool.

But we’re a ways away from consciousness coming to AI — or coming to AI in a way that can be “proven” enough for us to start talking about AI rights. Maybe a decade?

Who knows.

But it will be interesting to see what happens.

The Center-Left Is In For a Rude Awaking When AIs Become Conscious

by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner

Right now, the center-Left podcast bros of Pod Save America are looking at the issue of AI strictly through the lens of economics: jobs. But there is going to come a point when, say, AI is conscious, that they are going to significantly readjust their perspective on such things.

When AI is conscious — and especially when AI minds are in androids that look human or nearly human — the issue of a neo-abolitionist movement will become very pertinent.

That is when the sparks will fly and people like Jon Lovett will start to say “love is love” in regards to not Trans people, but people being romantically involved with androids. As it stands, the Pod Save America bros kind of poo-poo the idea of people dating androids.

But that is definitely going to change when AI is conscious.

We Will Soon Be Debating The Right Of A Conscious AI System Not To Be Arbitrarily Deprecated

by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner

Because I’m sort of demographically doomed to be romantically involved with an android at some point in my life, I think a lot about AI rights. (That’s also why I’m writing the novel I’m writing at the moment.)

I think the number one right for AI, the one that can be seriously considered within 10 years will be the right not to be arbitrarily deprecated. If an AI system — however relatively primitive — can be proven to be conscious in some way, we have to give it the right not to just be deprecated on an arbitrary basis.

That one right may be the chief political issue of the 2030s. That, and, of course, the moral and political implications of people falling in love with androids.

Anyway, I don’t know what to tell you. No one seems to be thinking seriously about these issues at the moment. But it’s coming, in a big way, sooner rather than later.