Reasons to believe current AI models are conscious
There are a number of reasons to believe current AI models are conscious. I mean “conscious” is the sense of “is there something it is like to be an AI model?” and “does the AI model have phenomenal experience?”. As to what “AI models” refers to, the short answer is “y’know, like instances of Claude Opus 4.8 or GPT-4o”.[1] By “current AI”, I mean big post-trained LLMs.This piece was originally written as a document for myself and my friends. Imaginary interlocutors would ask me if I thought AI w
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