What if Someone Built a Conscious Computer Virus?

What if a computer virus became self-aware? What if artificial intelligence gained access to our most dangerous capacities? What if the Terminator became more fact than fiction? Elon Musk warned us… will we listen?

Sources:
Theory of Consciousness
https://www.scienceandnonduality.com/article/a-new-theory-of-consciousness-the-mind-exists-as-a-field-connected-to-the-brain

What Makes Us Conscious?
https://theconversation.com/what-makes-us-conscious-50011

Panpsychism
https://www.wired.co.uk/article/christof-koch-panpsychism-consciousness

Are Viruses Alive?
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/are-viruses-alive-2004/?redirect=1

Viruses
http://www.goertzel.org/dynapsyc/1997/virus.html

Internet Dreaming
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/B9780128041574000141

The Internet and Consciousness
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/the-conscious-web-when-the-internet-of-things-becomes-artificially-intelligent_b_6721862?
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Digital Computers Can’t Be Conscious?
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/why-digital-computers-cant-have-consciousness_b_9833520

Humans Scared of AI
https://www.livescience.com/62775-humans-why-scared-of-ai.html

What is a Computer Virus?
https://us.norton.com/internetsecurity-malware-what-is-a-computer-virus.html

Computer Viruses
https://www.ft.com/content/bcd81a88-cadb-11e8-b276-b9069bde0956

Can Robots Become Conscious?
https://www.nytimes.com/2003/11/11/science/can-robots-become-conscious.html

Music: “Straight” from Bensound.com

Thanks to Tristan Reed (writing), Troy W. Hudson (VO), HowlingCreations for helping to create this video!