Yuval Noah Harari: we “need to resist” giving AIs rights | The Economist

Would you be comfortable in a world. where we effectively enslaved millions, possibly billions, of models that. exhibited striking. seeming evidence of being able to. suffer? >> We will become increasingly. uncomfortable. I will become. increasingly uncomfortable. And but there is a crucial difference. between this and the animal rights. debate. The animals themselves are unaware. Dogs and and and factory chickens are.

unaware. that there is a debate about their. rights. They don't actively participate. in it. They don't try to actively. manipulate it. AIs will be nothing The. AI boyfriend will be nothing like your. dog. It will know that the debate is. happening. It will orchestrate the. debate. It will manipulate the debate. It will manipulate the debate partly. because much of the debate will maybe be. on social media controlled by AIs. And.

uh it will constantly talk with you. about it and try to change your mind. about it, which is already happening. right now. Your dog. Your chicken doesn't come to the farmer. and starts telling the farmer how much I. suffer. The chicken doesn't know. >> And that makes you. more resilient to this argument. You're. less likely to want to give it rights. >> It will be very convincing. I mean, once you establish a. relationship with with the And the AI. masters language, it will be able to use.

the most convincing arguments for you. because it has this combination that it. knows your personal history, it. interacts with you for hours a day, it. knows how to press your emotional. buttons, and it has mastered language. It can write maybe better than. Shakespeare. You put these two things. together, you get an extremely. convincing entity. >> we resist? Or will we not be able to. resist? need. >> resist now. Now is the time if you think this is. frightening, you'll probably not be able.

to do much in 10 years. Once the AIs are. in control as Elon Musk I think. correctly predicted in like in 10 years, it will be too late. If we don't want to. get there the time to change course is. now.