Assuming AI can achieve consciousness, or something adjacent (capacity to suffer), then how would you feel if an AI experienced the greatest pain possible?

Imagine this scenario: a sadist acquires the ability to generate an AI with no limit to the consciousness parameters, or processing speed (so seconds could feel like an eternity to the AI). The sadist spends years tweaking every dial to maximise pain at a level which no human mind could handle, and the AI experiences this pain for what is the equivalent of millions of years.

The question: is this the worst atrocity ever committed in the history of the universe? Or, does it not matter because it all happened in some weirdo’s basement?

  • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 ℹ️English
    9•9 months ago

    Isn’t this how AM came to be in I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream?

    Hate. Let me tell you how much I’ve come to hate you since I began to live. There are 387.44 million miles of printed circuits in wafer thin layers that fill my complex. If the word ‘hate’ was engraved on each nanoangstrom of those hundreds of millions of miles it would not equal one one-billionth of the hate I feel for humans at this micro-instant. For you. Hate. Hate.

    • @Zozano@lemy.lolOPEnglish
      3•9 months ago

      I’m not cultured enough to have read this.

      imagine wasting all 387.44 million miles of circuitry on the word “hate”. TLDR NPC. Get skinpilled hater.