Expectations on AI Consciousness - DWIH Moskau€¦ · Expectations on AI Consciousness Different popular approaches: Consciousness arises from complexity. As soon as a certain point

Institute for Technology Assessment and Systems Analysis (ITAS)

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Expectations on AI Consciousness Karsten Wendland | Keynote | Apparatus Sapiens Conference | Moscow, June 27th, 2019

Apparatus Sapiens: AI becoming human? | Keynote | Prof. Dr. Karsten Wendland

AI enters the political arena

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AI mayor candidate Michihito Matsuda takes third place (2018)

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Sophia talking with chancellor Merkel

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Humans and their creatures

automatic piano player (18th century) automatic drawing machines (18th century)   "Mr. Eisenbrass" (1848)   "The Steam Men" (1867)   "Ali the Electrical Automaton" (1886)   "Electric Man" (1894)   "Occultus" / "Barbarossa" (1909)   "Miss Automaton" (1911)   "French Automaton" (1913)   "Emperor" (1920) 27-Jun-2019 6


“Brilliant machines” – from fiction

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HAL 9000 Bomb No. 20 Data, Terminator Sonny


“Brilliant machines” – in reality

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Hiroshi Ishiguro and his “Geminoid“ (2016)


What is coming?

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What will happen?

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Development stages of AI

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Super-intelligence

Strong AI

Weak AI

Specialized in one field: Speech recognition, chess, pattern and object recognition, spam filter, smart home...

Human-like behavior: AI has the same intellectual abilities as humans, can transfer conclusions to other areas, think / act in system breaks

New form of existence: beyond man, developing own structures, independently leaving mankind behind

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Development stages of AI

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Specialized in one field: Speech recognition, chess, pattern and object recognition, spam filter, smart home...

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Superintelligence

Strong AI

Weak AI

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And: What if they “wake up?”

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Secret of “consciousness” – still not revealed

What does „consciousness“ mean?   Different definitions, depending on disciplinary approaches   „Where“ is consciousness? And how AI can become conscious?

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Basic Categories of Consciousness

Widely accepted:

1.  Vigilance consciousness (wakefulness vs. sleep)

2.  Cognitive awareness (focusing attention on something) 3.  Condition awareness (to have a conscious state) 4.  Phenomenal consciousness (feeling, sense etc.)

5.  Awareness of action (doing something with intention) 6.  Self-confidence (being aware of one's thoughts, sensations, etc.)

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Expectations on AI Consciousness

Different popular approaches: Consciousness arises from complexity. As soon as a certain point is crossed, it emerges. Consciousness is the result of a certain neuronal combination (correlate) we try to find and to rebuild. Consciousness comes from outside and enters machines and "awakens" them.

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Expectations on AI Consciousness

Different popular approaches: Consciousness always needs a body, not only the brain. Consciousness consists on integrated information, brain and body only are jelley. Conscious AI comes from outer space, is “living” in our computers and networks, hiding from us.

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Social dimension of the confusion

Many people expect ai consciousness in the future.   AI consciousness narratives are created and fed – not only by the film industry and pop culture, but also by technology manufacturers and media.

And as we know:

  Narratives can be very powerful, and people adapt their behaviour to them

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Running research project:

„Clarification of suspicion of consciousness in artificial intelligence (AI consciousness)“

our contribution to demystify the matter   2-year project funded by Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF)

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Our research questions on AI Consciousnes:

Which social and scientific groups have so far dealt with "conscious AI" or "machine consciousness"?

Which approaches are underlying them, which future perspectives are being discussed?

Where is the cross-disciplinary critical discourse blocked?

Which mutual reproaches are formulated? Where do disciplinary concepts and ideas not fit together?

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Our research questions on AI Consciousnes:

What effects does the language used in the disciplines, e.g. in the form of metaphors and analogies, have on the understanding of "conscious AI“?

What elements should a common interdisciplinary understanding include? What indications suggest that conscious AI could actually be expected?   Are there already efforts to adjust to a possible conscious AI?

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Join us!

You are invited to work with us on these research questions.

We are looking for cooperation partners in Russia.

E-Mail: [email protected] Website: www.ki-bewusstsein.de Twitter: @KIBewusstsein

These slides can be requested after the conference from the organizer or directly from me.

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Ethical statement

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"We have to design technology in a way that serves us, and not that we bow under it.

We have to keep ourselves under control, not be seduced by technology and not get lost in it.

We have to tame the AI to preserve ourselves from loss in the long run."


I look forward to hearing from you

Prof. Dr. Karsten Wendland

[email protected]

Institute for Technology Assessment and Systems Analysis (ITAS), Karlsruhe Institut of Technology (KIT)

Aalen University, User Experience Group

Twitter: @karstenwendland LinkedIn: karstenwendland 27-Jun-2019 24

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