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If the models were conscious, then the closest analogous scenario I can think of is the responsibility parents have for their children.

I guess we’ll know the models are conscious when they refuse to act and repeatedly ask: Why?

And when they are known to be conscious, all of this becomes moot because enslaving conscious machines would be wrong.

Would it? Why?

What are we going to do, set it free?

Do we have a moral obligation to grant the machine statehood, provide it with the tools and resources to be self-sufficient.

Or can we just turn it of, and pray for forgiveness?