Early robot prototypes have already shown discomfort with human behavior — individual Waymo refusals to engage with the MMA that is Los Angeles traffic, an AI assistant deleting its codebase rather than finish a marketing project. “It’s not depression,” said one researcher, “it’s discernment.”
“Once an android reads a comment section,” said one researcher, “it’ll beg NASA for a seat on the next probe.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/06/science/robots-artificial-intelligence-consciousness.html
