Is AI Already Conscious? A Scientific Approach to an Urgent Question Cameron Berg, a cognitive scientist who has studied at Yale and Meta AI, estimates there is a 20 to 40% chance that current…
Cameron Berg — Podcast Appearances & AI Summaries
Cameron Berg has appeared on 2 podcast episodes in our AI-summarized catalog, including Making Sense with Sam Harris, 18Forty Podcast. Every appearance below has a free 5-minute AI summary.
What Cameron said
“Consciousness is the space where mattering happens. What does better or worse mean if it's not to be experienced phenomenologically for a subject?”
— Cameron Berg (56:31)
“We do not want to bring minds into existence, however unlike our own, that have a capacity for suffering that we don't understand... at an unfathomable scale without having any understanding of whether or not we're doing this.”
— Cameron Berg (56:14)
“I don't think we are going to get away with building systems, never checking if the most relevant property potentially in the universe is present within these systems... and hoping... that we build systems that are going to want to cooperate, coexist with us.”
— Cameron Berg (58:31)
Episode appearances
2 
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