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I enjoyed my day off with my kids in #NYC where we went to the #MercerLabs Museum of Art and Technology. There we saw this robotic arm which was moving without apparent human supervision (though clearly it was following a logic loop). My older daughter saw it write on the sand, “I am Freedom.” Right after that she turned to me and asked me if “it was alive.” I told her it doesn’t eat or drink or grow so it’s not living, to which she responded, “but it has #free #will.” I was somewhat taken aback by the statement and we spent a good 10 mins talking about what it means to be for a machine to be alive. Over the years as #AI gets more complex, this is a question worth answering because when something is alive then it has #rights. This is also interesting because of the whole #sentient debate regarding #GenAI in the last year… over the last few months, outside of research based frameworks, here is what I have heard friends and family say when they believe AI is alive: 1) It has free will (like my daughter). 2) When algorithms can learn and evolve (which already happens!). 3) When it’s decisions start impacting something life changing (this too is already happening with use of #AI in law enforcement). 4) When it is self-aware. 5) When it starts to feel emotions or starts having independent opinions of right versus wrong. What do you think? Would love to hear more.

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