Fun interview," and great intentions on the part of Greg Brockman and those working with him.  My comments:<br><br>1.	I feel that the Turning Test fails to distinguish consciousness because it only looks at what the subject consciousness does to the external world—i.e.", it’s communications with, and its behavior in, the external world.  Consider the story of the two Chinese philosophers, which goes something like this:  P1 “It’s funny that frogs do not think like us.” P2 “How do you know how frogs think?”  P1 “How do you know how I think?”  We can never know what another thinks or feels and we cannot know if that other has consciousness—until we enter into their “mind,” via some form of neural link.  Of course," we will be putting our own consciousness at risk in doing so.  <br><br>2.	Setting the initial conditions of an AI to prevent it from acting as a “bad player” later", reminds me of the problem of raising kids.  Parents have a problem in raising kids—the parents must either change their ways to present a good example (for example, stop drinking, lying or procrastinating) or hide that behavior from the kids; i.e. they want the kids to “do as I say and not as I do.”  However," kids eventually learn that their parents are not saints.  The AI will learn the entire history of the human race quite soon in its “childhood” and why do we think that it will find a model for its own behavior in that history that bodes well for us?<br><br>Thank you.  William L. Ramseyer"