A short conversational transcript from a YouTube video (creator: Robert Ta) in which two speakers discuss philosophical and spiritual worries about AI: whether creating artificial consciousness affects human groundedness, whether consciousness and soul are the same, and what human roles might look like in a potential 'robot apocalypse' (one speaker says they'd be a vegetable farmer).
Do you think AI is going to.
Kill us all or ticker jobs?
Thoughts? I think mostly I'm concerned about the spiritual dimension of it. Tell me about it. You know? Tell me about it. Like, just creating. I mean, the potential to create another, like, consciousness that exists within, like, this entire realm that we've built. Like, I feel like so much of the benefit of being a human is, like, in our groundedness in this, like, reality, you know? And I feel like there's a lot still here to explore before we start building other ones, you know?
Got it.
Is that crazy?
No, I don't think so. I think that's actually a great line of thinking. So on that line of thinking, do you think I will ever have a soul? The way things are going.
There'S a lot of words. There's a lot of words like consciousness and soul. Like, are those the same thing to you? Are they? I wouldn't say so.
If I took over, what job would you want in the robot apocalypse?
I would want to be a farmer.
Oh, hell, yeah. What would you farm?
Vegetables.
Vegetables? Yeah. You've already. Have you envisioned this?
I've already done it.
You've done it?
Yeah. Let's go. What? That's great. That's what I want to keep doing. Oh, that's so cool.
So that's what you're feeding to your own garden? Yeah, literally, that.
