Looking the Part: The AI Zombie Problem and the Anti-Turing Test
by Julien da Silva
Published onJun 05, 2023
Looking the Part: The AI Zombie Problem and the Anti-Turing Test
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Abstract
This paper addresses a philosophical and practical issue with the human tendency to anthropomorphise artificial intelligence. Specifically, I argue that there is a need to regulate the widespread adoption and societal integration of human-like AI, given that there will be substantive, irresolvable disagreement over their moral status. My aim in this paper is to propose a viable regulatory intervention that will avoid the social and political confusion that would be generated by human-like AI. I favour a novel solution called the Anti-Turing Test: a modified Turing Test that reliably distinguishes problematic human-like AI from others suitable for social integration
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