Is it moral to make use of advanced mini-brains for synthetic intelligence?

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Mind organoids could possibly be more practical than silicon-based AIs at sure duties. However as they develop extra advanced, when ought to we step in to guard their welfare, asks Michael Le Web page

By Michael Le Page

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DO WE need a future wherein knowledge centres stuffed with residing, bodiless brains perform varied duties for us? That’s the query raised by the work being achieved by at the least three groups world wide.

In 2021, I reported on how Brett Kagan at Cortical Labs in Australia was rising flat sheets of mouse and human mind cells, hooking them as much as electrodes and getting them to play games reminiscent of Pong. “We frequently confer with them as residing within the Matrix,” he instructed me on the time. “When they’re within the recreation, they imagine they’re the paddle.” …

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