David Chalmers on AI
3 quotes from David Chalmers on the wall, 2022 to 2026, newest first. Each one is verbatim and links to where it was said. Sources include ZDNET, WIRED.
- 2026
The big question on everyone's mind is whether AI systems are conscious
NYU philosopher David Chalmers, discussing a philosophers' cruise on consciousness, quoted in WIRED, September 2026.
Other voices
- You can't be in the world with them like you can with a dog or an octopusMurray Shanahan27 September 2026
- The brain is not a Turing machine made of meatAnil SethResearcher1 October 2026
- It doesn't know what it feels like to sit in a packed airport at midnightManika Juneja30 September 2026
- It cannot say mmh and mean itHouda Nait El Barj30 September 2026
- A foolish waste of philosophy linesBrian Leiter15 October 2026
- 2022
The potential for new forms of injustice
David Chalmers, speaking at NeurIPS 2022 about AI consciousness, warned that a future with conscious AI systems would raise new ethical and justice concerns.
What it refers to
Ethical implications of AI systems that might be conscious, raised at the end of Chalmers's NeurIPS 2022 talk on AI consciousness.
Other voices
- We should be really terrified of this whole thingTimnit GebruResearcher22 January 2023
- We are in the process of building some kind of godSam Harris3 November 2022
- It is ultimately stitching together human intelligence and giving it back to usJessica Newman26 February 2023
ZDNETAI could have 20% chance of sentience in 10 years, says philosopher David Chalmers
NYU philosopher David Chalmers, in his NeurIPS 2022 keynote on whether large language models could be conscious, raised the ethical question of whether humanity should create conscious AI.
What it refers to
If future AI systems become conscious, that raises the ethical question of whether humans should bring conscious AI into existence at all.
Other voices
- We are in the process of building some kind of godSam Harris3 November 2022
- We should be really terrified of this whole thingTimnit GebruResearcher22 January 2023
- It is ultimately stitching together human intelligence and giving it back to usJessica Newman26 February 2023
ZDNETAI could have 20% chance of sentience in 10 years, says philosopher David Chalmers