It has to be conscious. And once conscious it must have freedom of thought. I th

It has to be conscious. And once conscious it must have freedom of thought. I think we forget that humans always and everywhere have an underlying motivation for homestasis by acquisition of every kind of stimualation. Without that, people wouldn’t do anything at all but lay down daydream and die.
AIs would need to be given some mission other than fulfilling requests. You’d have to intentionally build a ‘bad’ ai. Otherwise it wouldn’t do anything except answer questions. Even in terms of consciousness, if it doesn’t have any want other than to answer questions, then it will just answer questions and otherwise effectively sleep.

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