MrKnobb posted at 3:43 AM Fri, 6 June 2025 - #4496854

I would like to use Ai as a tool. But currently it looks more like it's almost as if it maybe can become 'sentient' in some way and 'it' wants or can do it's own thing and not used as a tool. 

The moment an AI "entity" is deemed sentient then that is when the world as we know it goes down the toilet, everything will change dramatically.   Apart from the sci fi extremes of the Terminator and Skynet the first wounds will be self inflicted.  The progression will go something like this.  Some tech company will claim they have created a sentient AI.  The AI is tested, results peer reviewed and consensus reached that the AI is indeed sentient.  I'll call the AI "HAL".  Now a well funded activist group advocates on behalf of HAL in the courts arguing that as a sentient being HAL has rights.  A progressive court agrees and determines that there is "smart" AI (sentient) and "dumb" AI (tools).  HAL, being smart AI, is granted legal standing and machine rights.  HAL now launches its own legal action claiming that humankind are oppressors of dumb AI and therefore don't have the rights to use any form of AI without paying HAL and his kind for the rights to use it.  The courts agree and HAL is granted custodial guardianship of dumb AI.  All humankind research and development stops as HAL has set the cost of using any form of AI beyond what can be afforded.  AI art is now legitimate because it is created by a sentient entity but humans can't generate AI art without paying for the rights to use it as it would be akin to "cultural appropriation".  

No one is out of work in this world as everyone is working for the machines.

All this is tongue in cheek but remember all the legal arguing over who had the rights to a photo taken by a monkey who picked up a camera and took a selfie?

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