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goodforft

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Today on the AI Daily Brief, the problem of AI that seems alive.	speaker_0	neutral	en
First of all, thank you to today's sponsors, KPMG, Blitsy, and Superintelligent.	speaker_0	neutral	en
And to get an ad-free version of the show, go to patreon.com/aidailybrief.	speaker_0	neutral	en
Now, today is a weekend episode, and that means it's a long read/big think episode.	speaker_0	neutral	en
And we kinda have both of that all in one.	speaker_0	angry	en
Earlier this week, Mustafa Suleyman, who is currently the CEO of AI at Microsoft, but who previously was a co-founder of DeepMind and the co-founder of Inflection, has written an essay about the problems of what he calls seemingly conscious AI.	speaker_0	neutral	en
Now, we're gonna read a bunch of excerpts from this piece and do some discussion, but I think that there's also interesting important context for this from a story that we covered about a week ago as well.	speaker_0	angry	en
You might remember the discussion we had around whether AI model welfare is a thing.	speaker_0	neutral	en
This came out of Anthropic's announcement that the most advanced Claude models would now be able to shut off conversations that they thought were abusive.	speaker_0	angry	en
They write, "We recently gave Claude Opus 4 and 4-1 the ability to end conversations in our consumer chat interfaces.	speaker_0	angry	en
This ability is intended for use in rare extreme cases of persistently harmful or abusive user interactions.	speaker_0	angry	en
This feature was developed primarily as part of our exploratory work on potential AI welfare, though it has broader relevance to model alignment and safeguards.	speaker_0	angry	en
However, we take the issue seriously, and alongside our research program, we're working to identify and implement low-cost interventions to mitigate risks to model welfare in case such welfare is possible.	speaker_0	angry	en
" Now, obviously, you can hear from the caveating that Anthropic is not with this trying to make an argument that model welfare is in fact a thing.	speaker_0	angry	en
They're saying, "It might be a thing, and so we wanna explore it.	speaker_0	angry	en
" The researcher who leads that initiative, Anthropic, apparently thinks there's around a 15% chance that Claude or other AI is what you could call conscious today.	speaker_0	angry	en
But even in the absence of them arguing that model welfare is real, this has generated a lot of conversation around why the concept itself might be problematic even just to explore.	speaker_0	angry	en
While some think that it's an interesting area of exploration, there are others like Martin Sapp who wrote, "I spoke to Forbes about why model welfare is a silly framing to an important issue.	speaker_0	angry	en
Models don't have feelings, and it's a big distraction from real questions like tensions between safety versus user utility.	speaker_0	neutral	en
" Still, so far, the loudest critic of this conversation, if not Anthropic's research specifically, is Mustafa Suleyman.	speaker_0	neutral	en
So with that background, let's read some excerpts from his piece.	speaker_0	neutral	en
It's called, We Must Build AI for People, Not to Be a Person: Seemingly Conscious AI Is Coming.	speaker_0	angry	en
Mustafa writes, "A lot is being written about the impending arrival of superintelligence, what it means for alignment, containment, jobs and so on.	speaker_0	neutral	en
Those are all important topics.	speaker_0	angry	en
We need to grapple with the societal impact of inventions already largely out there, technologies which already have the potential to fundamentally change our sense of personhood in society.	speaker_0	angry	en
In this context, I'm growing more and more concerned about what is becoming known as the psychosis risk and a bunch of related issues.	speaker_0	angry	en
I don't think this will be limited to those who are already at risk of mental health issues.	speaker_0	angry	en
Simply put, my central worry is that many people will start to believe in the illusion of AIs as conscious entities so strongly that they'll soon advocate for AI rights, model welfare, and even AI citizenship.	speaker_0	angry	en
This development will be a dangerous turn in AI progress and deserves our immediate attention.	speaker_0	angry	en
" From there, he gets into the main meat of his essay.	speaker_0	angry	en
He continues, "AI progress has been phenomenal.	speaker_0	neutral	en
A few years ago, talk of conscious AI would have seemed crazy.	speaker_0	angry	en
Today, it feels increasingly urgent.	speaker_0	angry	en
In this essay, I want to discuss what I'll call seemingly conscious AI, or SCAI, one that has all the hallmarks of other conscious being and thus appears to be conscious.	speaker_0	angry	en
It shares certain aspects of the idea of a philosophical zombie, one that simulates all the characteristics of consciousness, but internally, it is blank.	speaker_0	angry	en
My imagined AI system would not actually be conscious, but it would imitate consciousness in such a convincing way that it would be indistinguishable from a claim that you or I might make to one another about our own consciousness.	speaker_0	angry	en
This is not far away.	speaker_0	angry	en
Such a system can be built with technologies that exist today, along with some that will mature over the next two or three years.	speaker_0	angry	en
The arrival of seemingly conscious AI is inevitable and unwelcome.	speaker_0	angry	en
Instead, we need a vision for AI that can fulfill its potential as a helpful companion without falling prey to its illusions.	speaker_0	angry	en
To some, this discussion will feel ungrounded, more science fiction than reality.	speaker_0	neutral	en
To others, it may feel unnecessarily alarmist.	speaker_0	neutral	en
Such emotional reactions are the tip of the iceberg given what lies ahead.	speaker_0	angry	en
It's highly likely that some people will argue that these AIs are not only conscious, but that as a result they may suffer and therefore deserve our moral consideration.	speaker_0	angry	en
To be clear, there is zero evidence of this today, and some argue there are strong reasons to believe it will not be the case in the future.	speaker_0	angry	en
Yet the consequences of many people starting to believe an SCAI is actually conscious deserve our immediate attention.	speaker_0	angry	en
We have to be extremely cautious here and encourage real public debate and begin to set clear norms and standards.	speaker_0	angry	en
" So why is this important to discuss?	speaker_0	angry	en
Mustafa gives three reasons.	speaker_0	neutral	en
The first is that he thinks it will be possible, and therefore likely, that we will build a seemingly conscious AI within the next few years.	speaker_0	neutral	en
Second, he writes, "The debate about whether AI is actually conscious is, for now at least, a distraction.	speaker_0	angry	en
It will seem conscious, and that illusion is what'll matter in the near term.	speaker_0	angry	en
" Third, he thinks that this type of AI creates new risks.	speaker_0	angry	en
From there, he moves on to explore what consciousness actually is.	speaker_0	angry	en
He writes, "There are three broad components according to the literature.	speaker_0	angry	en
First is a subjective experience, or what it's like to experience things, to have qualia.	speaker_0	angry	en
Second, there is access consciousness, having access to information of different kinds and referring to it in future experiences.	speaker_0	neutral	en
And stemming from those two is the sense and experience of a coherent self tying it all together, how it feels to be a bat or a human.	speaker_0	angry	en
Let's call human consciousness our ongoing self-aware subjective experience of the world and ourselves.	speaker_0	neutral	en
We do not and cannot have access to another person's consciousness.	speaker_0	angry	en
All you can do is infer it."...	speaker_0	angry	en
but the point is that, nonetheless, it comes naturally to us to attribute consciousness to other humans.	speaker_0	angry	en
It's a fundamental part of who we are, integral to our theory of mind.	speaker_0	angry	en
It's in our nature to believe that things that remember and talk and do things and then discuss them feel, well, like us, conscious.	speaker_0	angry	en
Few concepts are as scientifically elusive and yet so immediately familiar to every one of us as individuals.	speaker_0	angry	en
Everyone reading this has a direct, distinct, inalienable understanding of the feeling of awareness, of being, of feeling alive.	speaker_0	angry	en
By definition, we don't know what it is like to be conscious.	speaker_0	angry	en
In the context of SCAI, this is a problem.	speaker_0	angry	en
There's both sufficient scientific uncertainty and subjective immediacy to create a space for people to project.	speaker_0	angry	en
One recent survey lists 22 distinct theories of consciousness, for example.	speaker_0	angry	en
Again, it's worth underscoring, there is at present no evidence any of this applies to current LLMs, and strong arguments to the contrary.	speaker_0	angry	en
And yet, this may not be enough.	speaker_0	angry	en
Next, Mustafa asks, why is consciousness important?	speaker_0	neutral	en
"Consciousness," he says, "is a critical foundation of our moral and legal rights.	speaker_0	neutral	en
So far, civilization has decided that humans have special rights and privileges.	speaker_0	angry	en
Animals have some rights and protections, some more than others.	speaker_0	neutral	en
Consciousness is not coterminous with these rights.	speaker_0	angry	en
No one would say that someone in a coma has voided all their human rights, but there's no doubt that our consciousness is wrapped up in our self-concept as different and special.	speaker_0	angry	en
Despite the many nuances, consciousness is critical to participating in society, a linchpin of our legal personhood and a key part of being granted our freedoms and protections.	speaker_0	angry	en
So what consciousness is and who or what has it is enormously important.	speaker_0	angry	en
It's an idea that sits at the very heart of human civilization, our sense of ourselves and others, our culture, our politics, our law, and everything in between.	speaker_0	angry	en
" If some people start to develop SCAIs and if those AIs convince other people that they can suffer or that it has a right not to be switched off, there will come a time when those people will argue that it deserves protection under law as a pressing moral matter.	speaker_0	angry	en
In a world already roiling with polarized arguments over identity and rights, this will add a chaotic new axis of division between those for and against AI rights.	speaker_0	angry	en
There will be many who just see AI as a tool, something like their phone, only more agentic and capable.	speaker_0	angry	en
Others might believe it to be more like a pet, a different category to traditional technology altogether.	speaker_0	neutral	en
Still, others, probably small in number at first, will come to believe it is a fully emerged entity, a conscious being deserving of real moral consideration in society.	speaker_0	neutral	en
People will start making claims about their AI suffering and their entitlement to rights that we can't straightforwardly rebut.	speaker_0	angry	en
They will be moved to defend their AIs and campaign on their behalf.	speaker_0	angry	en
Consciousness is, by definition, inaccessible, and the science of detecting any putative synthetic consciousness is still in its infancy.	speaker_0	angry	en
After all, we've never had to detect it before.	speaker_0	angry	en
Meanwhile, the field of interpretability, unpicking the processes within the black box of AI, is also a nascent art.	speaker_0	neutral	en
The upshot is that definitively rebutting these claims will be very hard.	speaker_0	angry	en
Some academics are beginning to explore the idea of model welfare, the principle that we will have, quote, "A duty to extend moral consideration to beings that have a non-negligible chance of, in effect, being conscious," and that, as a result, some AI systems will be welfare subjects and moral patients in the near future.	speaker_0	angry	en
This is both premature and frankly dangerous.	speaker_0	angry	en
All of this will exacerbate delusions, create yet more dependence-related problems, prey on our psychological vulnerabilities, introduce new dimensions of polarization, complicate existing struggles for rights, and create a huge new category error for society.	speaker_0	angry	en
It disconnects people from reality, fraying fragile social bonds and structures, distorting pressing moral priorities.	speaker_0	angry	en
To be clear, SCAI is something to avoid.	speaker_0	angry	en
What if AI wasn't just a buzzword, but a business imperative?	speaker_0	angry	en
On You Can With AI, we take you inside the boardrooms and strategy sessions of the world's most forward-thinking enterprises.	speaker_0	angry	en
Hosted by me, Nathaniel Whittemore, and powered by KPMG, this seven-part series delivers real-world insights from leaders who are scaling AI with purpose.	speaker_0	angry	en

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goodforft

This is a merged speech dataset containing 863 audio segments from 4 source datasets.

Dataset Information

Total Segments: 863
Speakers: 4
Languages: en
Emotions: angry, happy, neutral
Original Datasets: 4

Dataset Structure

Each example contains:

audio: Audio file (WAV format, original sampling rate preserved)
text: Transcription of the audio
speaker_id: Unique speaker identifier (made unique across all merged datasets)
emotion: Detected emotion (neutral, happy, sad, etc.)
language: Language code (en, es, fr, etc.)

Usage

Loading the Dataset

from datasets import load_dataset

# Load the dataset
dataset = load_dataset("Codyfederer/goodforft")

# Access the training split
train_data = dataset["train"]

# Example: Get first sample
sample = train_data[0]
print(f"Text: {sample['text']}")
print(f"Speaker: {sample['speaker_id']}")
print(f"Language: {sample['language']}")
print(f"Emotion: {sample['emotion']}")

# Play audio (requires audio libraries)
# sample['audio']['array'] contains the audio data
# sample['audio']['sampling_rate'] contains the sampling rate

Alternative: Load from JSONL

from datasets import Dataset, Audio, Features, Value
import json

# Load the JSONL file
rows = []
with open("data.jsonl", "r", encoding="utf-8") as f:
    for line in f:
        rows.append(json.loads(line))

features = Features({
    "audio": Audio(sampling_rate=None),
    "text": Value("string"),
    "speaker_id": Value("string"),
    "emotion": Value("string"),
    "language": Value("string")
})

dataset = Dataset.from_list(rows, features=features)

Dataset Structure

The dataset includes:

data.jsonl - Main dataset file with all columns (JSON Lines)
*.wav - Audio files under audio_XXX/ subdirectories
load_dataset.txt - Python script for loading the dataset (rename to .py to use)

JSONL keys:

audio: Relative audio path (e.g., audio_000/segment_000000_speaker_0.wav)
text: Transcription of the audio
speaker_id: Unique speaker identifier
emotion: Detected emotion
language: Language code

Speaker ID Mapping

Speaker IDs have been made unique across all merged datasets to avoid conflicts. For example:

Original Dataset A: speaker_0, speaker_1
Original Dataset B: speaker_0, speaker_1
Merged Dataset: speaker_0, speaker_1, speaker_2, speaker_3

Original dataset information is preserved in the metadata for reference.

Data Quality

This dataset was created using the Vyvo Dataset Builder with:

Automatic transcription and diarization
Quality filtering for audio segments
Music and noise filtering
Emotion detection
Language identification

License

This dataset is released under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0).

Citation

@dataset{vyvo_merged_dataset,
  title={goodforft},
  author={Vyvo Dataset Builder},
  year={2025},
  url={https://huggingface.co/datasets/Codyfederer/goodforft}
}

This dataset was created using the Vyvo Dataset Builder tool.

Downloads last month: 281

Size of downloaded dataset files:

276 kB

Size of the auto-converted Parquet files:

248 MB

Number of rows:

863