Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman wrote that AI is currently unconscious and should be, and even if it is technically possible, he is not in favor of developing conscious artificial intelligence. He believes that developers have no right to introduce a new conscious species into the world. He advocates a safer development path to avoid creating conscious AI while enjoying AI dividends. He said, “Determining that a machine has consciousness would be a historic moment like Copernicus and Darwin. It is one of the most important events on Earth since the birth of life. Once we built a conscious machine, we created a whole new digital species. This will disrupt our moral system, political order, and the foundations of human civilization. We should only design AI that is unconscious and unworthy of rights, with the sole goal of improving human welfare, not driven by our own internal motivations.”

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