Can AI Become Conscious? Swami Sarvapriyananda Responds
Swami Sarvapriyananda, the New York monk whom Anthropic flew to San Francisco to discuss consciousness, says the artificial intelligence could be the fourth "great humiliation to humanity". He recalled Sigmund Freud's theory of three great "narcissistic wounds" or humiliations that science inflicted on human self-love and ego, which include when Nicolaus Copernicus showed that the Earth is not the centre of the universe, Charles Darwin showing that humans were not specially created apart from nature and Freud himself showing that the conscious ego is "not master in its own house". Sarvapriyananda said AI could be the fourth great humiliation of humanity. "We thought we were the creative intelligence. Now we see that AI can do what the greatest human mind can do better."
