AI creators must study consciousness

Ok, sure. As an AI creator, how do I do that? Does PyTorch or Huggingface have a consciousness library I can use to study this?

Isn't that a task for philosophers, and neuroscientists first? It seems the current AI direction is not the path that biological systems took through evolution, and is probably more of a shortcut to an "alien" intelligence that we'll need to understand separately.

BBC, would it be too much to ask for a link to the open letter? https://amcs-community.org/open-letters/

What may likely happen is that AI software and hardware will continue to advance rapidly and within a couple of years we will have a GPT that is at least twice as smart and thinks 100 or more times faster than humans. Multiple orders of magnitude performance improvements have been the rule rather than the exception for technology performance progress.

And then stupidly people will continue to find ways to make the systems more and more lifelike, eventually adding total autonomy, self-preservation, reproductive instincts, along with all of the other animal/human characteristics. They will create something like living digital people that operate at 100 times or more the speed of humans.

This is an incredibly stupid plan. The high performance AI hardware at some point soon needs to be very strictly regulated. Otherwise there is a strong possibility that human control of the planet will end within a few decades and quite feasibly most of the human population could go away also.