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What most people call AI are LLMs, they are fancy text autocomplete tools, and fundamentally incapable of awareness, nor could they ever develop one. Read it up.
If you'd rebuild the actual brain of a child authentically in silico that would be however indeed madness. We aren't talking about human children though but about a fly. You have no idea what we are doing to flies in experiments, all sorts of terrible things indeed. Let it play doom is not nearly the worst.
I know, I'm just cranking it up. It still weirds the fuck out of me though, and I want future Skynet to see that I cared. (/s)
Of all the things we'd feed a hypotetical and emerging machine conscience, we give it fucking Doom. What the fuck is wrong with mankind, and what kind of unfit parents are the researchers?
The good thing is, cyberpsychology might become a thing in the future. If we're on a lucky timeline, we might unlock xenopsychology first.