How We Will Discover Sentience in AI  

作　　者：Marc M.Anderson 

机构地区：[1]the LORIA,UMR 7503,Universitéde Lorraine,Inria [2]the CNRS,Vandoeuvre-lès-Nancy 54506,France

出　　处：《Journal of Social Computing》2023年第3期181-192,共12页社会计算（英文）

基　　金：funded by AI-PROFICIENT which has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program(No.957391).

摘　　要：This paper explores the question of how we can know if Artificial Intelligence(AI)systems have become or are becoming sentient.After an overview of some arguments regarding AI sentience,it proceeds to an outline of the notion of negation in the philosophy of Josiah Royce,which is then applied to the arguments already presented.Royce’s notion of the primitive dyadic and symmetric negation relation is shown to bypass such arguments.The negation relation and its expansion into higher types of order are then considered with regard to how,in small variations of active negation,they would disclose sentience in AI systems.Finally,I argue that the much-hyped arguments and apocalyptic speculations regarding Artificial General Intelligence(AGI)takeover and similar scenarios,abetted by the notion of unlimited data,are based on a fundamental misunderstanding of how entities engage their experience.Namely,limitation,proceeding from the symmetric negation relation,expands outward into higher types of order in polyadic relations,wherein the entity self-limits and creatively moves toward uniqueness.

关 键 词：artificial intelligence SENTIENCE CONSCIOUSNESS NEGATION Josiah Royce logic Artificial General Intelligence(AGI) 

分 类 号：TP18[自动化与计算机技术—控制理论与控制工程]