Microsoft’s Suleyman has argued that proving machines are conscious would be like when the centuries-long belief that Earth was the center of the universe was proven wrong by Copernicus, or similar to the survival-of-the-fittest theory proposed by Charles Darwin.
“It would be one of the most significant moments on Earth since the dawn of life. If we build a conscious machine, we will have created a new digital species. It would upend our morality, our politics and the core foundation of human civilization,” he wrote.