Artificial Consciousness and Security
This is an incremental approach to security for computer systems, but it remains speculative without empirical validation.
The paper tackles the problem of computer security by proposing a program with features related to weak artificial consciousness, such as self-monitoring and communication, and suggests using trusted computing hardware to enhance integrity, but no implementation or results are provided.
This paper describes a possible way to improve computer security by implementing a program which implements the following three features related to a weak notion of artificial consciousness: (partial) self-monitoring, ability to compute the truth of quantifier-free propositions and the ability to communicate with the user. The integrity of the program could be enhanced by using a trusted computing approach, that is to say a hardware module that is at the root of a chain of trust. This paper outlines a possible approach but does not refer to an implementation (which would need further work), but the author believes that an implementation using current processors, a debugger, a monitoring program and a trusted processing module is currently possible.