Why We Should Not Build Self-Conscious Robots

Why We Should Not Build Self-Conscious Robots

“We should not unnecessarily increase the amount of conscious suffering in the universe.”
 — Philosopher Thomas Metzinger of Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz, Germany, on his call for “an immediate moratorium on efforts to make robots with emotions until ethics are properly discussed,” as reported by Virginia Hughes at The Last Word On Nothing. We should also not make robots with emotions because they would probably sound like Drake.