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Conventional AI (language models) is a small region of the space of impending minds, and the ethical and philosophical questions it raises are general to that entire space.

Reframes AI from a technology problem to a harbinger of a much larger space of possible minds

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AI: a Bridge toward Diverse Intelligence and Humanity’s Future

(2024) · Michael Levin

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AI: a Bridge toward Diverse Intelligence and Humanity's Future
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The source paper under extraction — a philosophical essay by Michael Levin arguing that AI debates neglect deeper questions about diverse intelligence, developmental biology, and humanity's future

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Many recent discussions of AI, and its impact on individuals and on society, are importantly incomplete because they neglect Diverse Intelligence, synthetic morphology, and developmental biology.
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Central thesis of the paper — the framing premise from which all other arguments follow

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Consciousness in AI is best assessed by drawing on neuroscientific theories of consciousness.claim0.778
Central methodological claim of the paper.
World models provide a bridge between diverse substrates of intelligence—biological, artificial, and hybrid.claim0.777
Synthetic claim integrating Ha's work with Levin's xenobiology and Tenenbaum's cognitive modeling.
Constitutional AI methods can be applied broadly to steer model behavior, e.g., writing style, tone, persona, not just harmlessness.claim0.771
Discussion section suggests generalizability beyond harmlessness.
It is likely that you think this is about AI's, or even specifically about large language models. No; this set of existential concerns is not a new development driven by advances in artificial intelligence.quote0.768
Opening rhetorical move revealing that the described existential concerns refer to children, not AI
Language models are some of the most remarkable computer programs in existence.quote0.767
Opening sentence setting the stage for the importance of interpretability.
Conventional accounts of intelligence and behavioural protocols assume a singular subject of intelligence and goals, which is a significant over-simplification.claim0.766
Critique of orthodox views of intelligence.
It's tricky, because for a typical language model the entity is sort of tricameral: the base simulator, the simulated simulator, and the simulated awareness.quote0.765
Antra's earlier definitive statement of the tricameral model.
The current AI's are a gift – a training sandbox in which we can explore these ideas, prompted by confusing but likely non-agential systems, before the arrival of true diverse intelligences makes these ethical questions immediate and dire.quote0.765
Load-bearing quote encapsulating the paper's reframing of current AI as preparatory exercise