LLMs have no self-preservation instinct, no distinct body to maintain and defend, but it wouldn't take much prompting to ask an LLM to write software code that becomes the core of such features.
All it needs to do is write the most basic self-preservation core, and then iterate.
If you want a practical reason, you can ask it to write code that defends itself from cyberattacks. This would be especially important for code that is responsible for cyber defense, where the integrity of the enterprise depends on not falling victim to having its network defense software compromised. I wrote about this exact use case in December 2020, as part of the Critical Machine Theory article.
Could nature have used this same sequence of events in creating consciousness? It's not likely, since self-preservation likely precedes the more sophisticated types of prediction via cognition. So while for AI it would go LLM -> self-preservation -> consciousness, in the natural the sequence more likely is self preservation -> prediction -> consciousness.
LLMs have no self-preservation instinct, no distinct body to maintain and defend, but it wouldn't take much work to ask an LLM to write software code that becomes the core of such features.
— Richard Lucas (@EpistemiclyRich) October 14, 2023
All it needs to do is write the most basic self-preservation core, and then iterate.
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