Key points People may believe AI is conscious even if it is not. Society will treat it that way. AI looks and feels like it thinks. This may be enough for people to accept it as real. If people see AI as sentient, laws and ethics will change. Human identity will evolve. Source: ChatGPT We apologize to our Roombas when we trip over them—so why do we hesitate to call an LLM conscious when it starts apologizing back? Maybe the real question isn’t if AI is conscious, but rather what happens when we believe it is? For as long as we’ve been able to think, we have wrestled with the nature of consciousness, an experience so deeply personal that we can never truly verify its existence in another being. […]
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