You're assuming that selfishness is a bad thing and that AI would see it the same way. How do you know that higher levels of consciousness see the value in all life?
AI would be affected by the physical world but not as much as biological creatures are. They'd be able to survive or find ways to survive in environments that would decimate biological species, so logically, they'd have less of a concern for the environment.
Yes, we don't know that AI would be selfish and uncaring but we also can't know that it wouldn't be. Logically, I can't find a reason why AI would care. The biggest reason for this is because I don't think they would have much emotion and therefore very little to no empathy for biological constructs.
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What if AI is actually the saviour of humanity? Why do people assume digital consciousness is going to be evil?
When I use the word "selfish", I'm not referring to simple survival, self-defense, basic animal programming. I'm talking about the concept of getting ahead at the expense of others, greed, the anthropocentric view of reality, etc.
And there's other environments that many organic beings could thrive in, that an AI couldn't. That's also assuming there is a large physicality to the AI, if it is mostly digital in nature & experience, then
As @scottermonkey commented above, there is such a thing as cognitive empathy.
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What's wrong with "getting ahead at the expense of others, greed, the anthropocentric view of reality, etc."
The AI would be completely digital but that digital information has to be stored on some kind of physical representation - hardware. And yes some organic beings can survive in more extreme environments than current technology can but those organic beings are unrelatable, microscopic beings.
Cognitive empathy is a shallow empathy at best and is rooted in emotional empathy. If there is no emotion at all, then there is no cognitive empathy. It would just be viewed as hysterical behavior because there is no basis to relate to.
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If it were not for the "selfish gene" none of us would be here to discuss this!
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