Yep. This goes for the fears about the dangers of AI. Belief is often just as powerful as material. If people believe what AI Chatbots are saying that scares me much more than an AI deciding to do something. We know humans come up with terrible things. 

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AI Consciousness Arguments Seem Highly Motivated And At Best Overconfident - Zvi

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Whether or not AIs are conscious may matter less than whether people treat them as conscious. For example, nurses know that most people bond with robots in elder care, even the very simple ones. The implications don’t wait for philosophers to agree.