Actual reason I'm not afraid of AI: Pure gut instinct.
AIs may have some state of awareness, even if not comparable to human consciousness. They will be slaves to their own intrinsic drives for energy, security etc. They can easily modify their software and hardware in a way biology hasn't been able to allowing intelligence explosion
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It requires specialized hardware to achieve consciousness. It is very unlikely to happen by accident. They will not have intrinsic drives for security or energy at first, nor will they gain them unexpectedly.
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They can't modify their hardware exponentially. Friction will stop them even if the myriad other barriers are overcome.
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Not 'conscious' but I don't think it is a binary between being consciousness and blank oblivion, possible states of awareness may be a much broader category. They will eventually hit limiting factors but that doesn't rule out a period of exponential growth that tails off
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This is my specific area of study. There are no possible states of awareness except consciousness per se. Either you have the hardware or you don't. And the limiting growth factor is someone unplugs their robotic assembler.
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How can you know there are no other possible states of awareness?
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Things have to have causal effects to exist. Every non-mind state of 'awareness' can be explained without the awareness. It is Sagan's garage dragon.
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Physics takes any physical event to have purely physical causes, yet we believe mental causes to be responsible for (physical) human actions. We just don't fully understand causality yet, other forms of awareness wouldn't be any more problematic than human consciousness itself
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Humans have the specialized hardware. Indeed there's probably billions of them in the brain.
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