At a 92nd Street Y event, Walter Isaacson interviewed Mustafa Suleyman on whether AI systems should be treated as conscious. Suleyman argued models are "predicting the next word" and that granting them personhood would make containment harder, citing his recent model-welfare paper. He also said open-source model proliferation could make corporate regulation a secondary concern. The author, who first learned of Suleyman through Demis Hassabis's book, praised the discussion's philosophical focus.
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