FWIW, this Nobel Laureate (Hinton) disagrees with you about consciousness. Maybe you should be less certain about your credences.
Anyway, there was some discussion about the Goblin Problem and its relation to consciousness it in the latest Last Week in AI. Always worth a listen.
Jesus, this is a brain-dead take. Anthropic is the AFAICT only for-profit company that takes AI safety and alignment seriously.
Dario (and others') work on Constitutional AI is AFAICT the only realistic solution to this very real engineering problem. And they publish what could be their secret-sauce constitution, verbatim, under a Creative Commons license.
When I see posts about how crappy AI is, it's not usually from people who are actually using it to get real work done.
It does not take many bold but harebrained plans (could cough Neom Line) to drain even a trillion-dollar fund.
No one thinks AI is that great
You have not been hanging around computational biologists lately. I can tell.
Blinding speed can compensate for a lot of deficiencies. -- David Nichols