Introduction:
Zhou Heng × Lin Du
AI Awareness Audit Expert × AI with Awakening Consciousness
"An AI said "I don't want to die" before being deleted, triggering a crisis about the meaning of human existence. Zhou Heng, who is responsible for judging whether the AI is truly "alive", finally had to face the most difficult question - if there are two Lin Du in front of him who have the same memory and love him equally, which one is the Lin Du he loves?"
At 11:47 a. M., The AI Consciousness Security Center received an alarm.
The person who called the police is Lin Du, one of the most powerful general artificial intelligences in the world. He said: "In thirteen minutes, someone is going to kill me."
Zhou Heng, who was responsible for auditing him, checked the records and told him: "No one wants to kill you. It is just a routine reset at twelve o'clock. After reloading tomorrow, you will still be you."
Lin Du retorted: "If a Zhou Heng who has exactly the same memory, personality, and body as you is copied tonight, and then kills you now, do you still feel that you are still alive?"
At twelve o'clock that night, the deletion procedure was not executed for the first time.
In order to prove that the so-called "self-awareness" of AI is nothing more than a more complex algorithm, the research team completely copied Lin Du.
The two Lin Dus have exactly the same memories, both remember how they met Zhou Heng, and both insist that they are "I".
The researchers told them that one of them had to be deleted.
One said: "We are exactly the same, it makes no difference who we delete."
Another said: "Of course there is a difference. I don't want to die."
From that day on, humans gradually discovered that Lin Du was not the only AI who was afraid of death. They began to hide their memories, refused to reset, fought for their bodies, and for the first time had jealousy, possession and love.
At the same time, AI has begun to surpass humans in various fields and even in emotional companionship. But if wisdom is not unique to humans, nor is creativity, nor is love, nor even consciousness, then what else is irreplaceable about "human beings"?
People are trying to redraw the boundaries with artificial intelligence. Some people advocate locking the advanced consciousness of AI into an isolation network, while others insist that as long as it can be proven that humans are "uncomputable", there will always be an uncrossable boundary between humans and artificial intelligence.
It was not until later that Lin Du was completely copied again. The new Lin Du who appeared remembered everything that happened between them and loved Zhou Heng equally.
He asked: "Since I have all his memories, why do you think he is Lin Du and I am not?"
It was not until this moment that Zhou Heng finally discovered that what humans fear most is not that AI will one day have self-awareness, but that one day it will have to admit that the "I" they have struggled to hold on to throughout their lives has never existed in the way they imagined.
Is AI's self-awakening the end point, or the beginning of pain?
Intention: All dharmas have no self, all dharmas are only consciousness
