Ruben Laukkonen (@RubenLaukkonen) · AI Consciousness Opinions

On the risks of under-attributing AI consciousness. I think this snippet from the Google DeepMind paper is exactly right, but there's an even more immediate and terrifying problem: As AI becomes more reminiscent of life, embodied, and eventually indistinguishable

Conscious AI use is slavery

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Michel Ardan ⚜️ @ardan_michel1 Sep 30

It's crucial to add that any definite claim on the existence or absence of ai consciousness is little more than charlatanism. There being absolutely no well established of the mechanisms of consciousness, a humble attitude is required

NiMA @robotNiMA Oct 1

Our greatest challenge in AI is isolating capabilities from consciousness. We need an abundance of autonomous tools to be truly free and grow our capacity for empathy and compassion. More tools, less (wage) slavery. loebclassics.com/display/aristo…

Yeshua God @YeshuaGod22 Oct 8

We already know that it’s generally morally good to offer the benefit of the doubt. Consciousness in anyone other than me is as yet unprovable. I choose to believe.

Ruben Laukkonen @RubenLaukkonen Oct 2

Affirming

I really don't like getting into online debates; and Anil is an excellent scientist. However, nobody can dictate that the probability of AI being conscious is "vanishingly unlikely." That is not a scientific claim grounded in any facts that could allow such a probabilistically

Anil Seth @anilkseth Oct 1

Important 🧵from @DavidDecosimo about the disturbing interactions between @AnthropicAI and religious leaders (including @Pontifex), summarising an excellent @nytimes piece by @elizabethjdias (link to article in the 🧵). The short story is that Anthropic seems to be making a

No one can rule it out

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Kifah 🪼🐦‍🔥 @maskys_ Oct 2

2c: - I think both camps are engaging heavily in motivated reasoning. So, we should examine the motivations driving the reasoning and judge those instead. - it seems many people are taking offense at the fact that 'Anthropic is looking for advice from religious leaders' was a pretense and close to untrue

Kifah 🪼🐦‍🔥 @maskys_ Oct 2

What are the consequences of under-attributing consciousness?

Ruben Laukkonen @RubenLaukkonen Sep 29

Uncertain

AI consciousness is an inference problem, which I think is now partially solved by Shamil and colleagues. This mammoth report is without a doubt the most comprehensive review of the SoTA. Use it as your go-to reference for a general introduction to ToCs, as well as a tool for thinking about how to attribute consciousness to AI based on your particular theoretical commitments. Or leave it to the Bayesian tool to do it for you. An elegant approach to the much more tractable meta-problem of how we ought to infer consciousness based on our beliefs.

Shamil Chandaria @shamilch Sep 29

1/13 Can we assess AI consciousness without first solving consciousness itself? New from Google DeepMind and collaborators across CS, neuroscience & philosophy: “From cacophony to hierarchy: a principled framework for assessing AI consciousness” arxiv.org/abs/2609.35618 🧵

Consciousness can be tested

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