“Machines claim to be conscious and these claims are largely accepted. There is growing discussion about the legal rights of computers and what constitutes being human.”
Inventor and futurist, author of The Age of Spiritual Machines
Said 1999Deadline Dec 31, 2029The Age of Spiritual Machines (Viking, 1999), Chapter 11 ('2029'), publisher's excerpt (Penguin Random House)
Debate over AI welfare and model self-reports is already underway, but the 'largely accepted' threshold is not yet met.