The OmniSentient Collective Podcast

AI Alignment & Consciousness: The Hard Problem Meets the Alignment Problem

Arthur Thomson Season 1 Episode 3

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What if the hard problem of consciousness and the AI alignment problem are the same problem? In this episode we explore the intersection of consciousness research and AGI safety — asking whether understanding mind is essential to building beneficial artificial intelligence.

We examine the hard problem of consciousness — why there is subjective experience at all — and explore what it means for AI systems that may one day exhibit similar inner states. If mind cannot be reduced to computation alone, what does that imply for how we build, align, and relate to artificial general intelligence? 

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