“One of them is that people who work in AI are much slower to anthropomorphize or humanize AI than the rest of us are. The other I learned is that the technology we’re farthest from, in terms of making progress, if you were going to try to make a M3GAN, is her motion, her movement, and her ability to walk spontaneously.
The other thing I learned is the ethics conversation around AI. It’s much deeper and prevalent in the AI community, I would say. One of the things they talk about a lot, that the rest of us don’t really, is what is our responsibility to anything that we create that has artificial intelligence, rather than what is their responsibility to serve us? What is our responsibility having brought them online?
Anything that risks sentience, or self-awareness, that is something that people [in the AI community] think and talk about a lot, which is an idea that kind of makes my brain hurt, but it’s one that we should all think about.”