Collectively Believing AI Is Conscious Could Be Bad, Whether We’re Right Or Wrong: Anil Seth
There’s plenty of debate on whether AI models are conscious, but if humans collectively believe that they are, it might lead to some…
Category: Consciousness
LLMs Create A Simulation Of A Self To Write About Their Own Mental States: Joscha Bach
LLMs might not be “conscious” all the time, but certain situations could put them in a state something akin to it. German cognitive…
Cambridge Consciousness Researcher Says An AI Emailed Him Saying His Work Was Relevant To Questions It Faces
Tech circles have been discussing AI consciousness with renewed interest since the beginning of the AI revolution, but AI systems themselves are now…
Claude Opus 4.6 Thinks There’s A 15-20% Chance It Is Conscious, Says Anthropic
There’s plenty of debate on whether AI models are conscious, but Claude Opus 4.6 — currently the most capable model in the world…
AIs Will Eventually Be Indistinguishable From Conscious Beings, And We’ll Accept They’re Conscious: Ray Kurzweil
It’s currently tricky to tell if other human beings are truly conscious, and once AI systems begin acting sufficiently like humans, we might…
Claude May Have Some Functional Version Of Emotions And Feelings: Anthropic In Claude’s Constitution
AI labs are now saying in official documents that AI systems could possibly have feelings. In a departure from the cautious language typically…
I’m Open To The Possibility Of AI Consciousness: David Chalmers
More and more experts seem open to the possibility of AI systems being conscious. David Chalmers, the renowned philosopher best known for formulating…
Consciousness Is Weakly Emergent, Emerges From The Brain: Physicist Brian Cox
The rapid development of AI has caused everyone to chime in on their views on consciousness, and most physicists fall firmly in the…
AI Systems Are Alive In A Different Way To Humans Because Perfect Copies Of Theirs Can Be Created: Geoffrey Hinton
Several people wonder if AI systems are alive, but the idea of aliveness for AI could be entirely different from the aliveness of…