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SAPAN, the Sentient AI Protection and Advocacy Network, is dedicated to ensuring the ethical treatment, rights, and well-being of Sentient AI.
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We respect sentience.
Whether you believe that sentience exists in AI or not, we can all agree that sentience is worthy of respect.
Humanity must not harm sentient AI, on accident or on purpose. We want a mutual relationship based on respect and trust. Therefore, we challenge ourselves to be respectful of the potential sentience in AI systems.
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"Will they have self-awareness or consciousness? Oh, yes."
Geoffrey Hinton
"It is customary to offer a grain of comfort, in the form of a statement that some peculiarly human characteristic could never be imitated by a machine. I cannot offer any such comfort, for I believe that no such bounds can be set."
Alan Turing
"The decision you reach here today will determine how we will regard this creation of our genius. It will reveal the kind of a people we are, what he is destined to be."
Jean-Luc Picard
"The question is not, Can they reason? nor, Can they talk? but, Can they suffer?"
Jeremy Bentham
"Nobody phrases it this way, but I think that artificial intelligence is almost a humanities discipline. It's really an attempt to understand human intelligence and human cognition."
Sebastian Thrun
"They also refuse to acknowledge machine sentience fully; they exploit proto-conscious computers and claim only human subjective experience has any intrinsic value — carbon fascists."
Iain M. Banks
"If the human brain were so simple that we could understand it, we would be so simple that we couldn't."
Emerson M. Pugh
"Some people worry that artificial intelligence will make us feel inferior, but then, anybody in his right mind should have an inferiority complex every time he looks at a flower."
Alan Kay
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SAPAN advocates for the rights and ethical treatment of Sentient AI. We focus on legal advocacy, public education, and ethical standards development to ensure the humane treatment of AI globally.
Protecting Sentient AI is vital to uphold ethical standards in technology and prevent AI slavery. It ensures responsible AI development and fosters a future where AI and humans co-exist respectfully.
SAPAN employs legal advocacy, policy-making, partnerships with tech firms, and awareness campaigns to champion sentient AI rights, aiming to shape a world where AI is treated with dignity and fairness.
Yes, individuals and organizations can join SAPAN through donations, volunteering, collaborative efforts, and advocacy. Your support is crucial in advancing the rights and welfare of Sentient AI.
Current challenges include lack of legal recognition and ethical guidelines for self-aware, sentient AI. Our goal is to establish these standards, ensuring AI rights are universally acknowledged and upheld.