Folk psychological attributions of consciousness to large language models | Neuroscience of Consciousness | Oxford Academic

Clara Colombatto, Stephen M Fleming, Folk psychological attributions of consciousness to large language models, Neuroscience of Consciousness, Volume 2024, Issue 1, 2024, niae013, https://doi.org/10.1093/nc/niae013 Technological advances raise new puzzles and challenges for cognitive science and the study of how humans think about and interact with artificial intelligence (AI). For example, the advent of large language models and their human-like linguistic abilities has raised substantial debate regarding whether or not AI could be conscious. Here, we consider the question of whether AI could have subjective experiences such as feelings and sensations (‘phenomenal consciousness’). While experts from many fields have weighed in on this issue in academic and public discourse, it remains unknown whether and how the general population attributes phenomenal consciousness to AI. We surveyed a sample of US residents (n = 300) and found that a majority of participants were willing to attribu

Clara Colombatto, Stephen M Fleming, Folk psychological attributions of consciousness to large language models, Neuroscience of Consciousness, Volume 2024, Issue 1, 2024, niae013, https://doi.org/10.1093/nc/niae013 Technological advances raise new puzzles and challenges for cognitive science and the study of how humans think about and interact with artificial intelligence (AI). For example, the advent of large language models and their human-like linguistic abilities has raised substantial debate regarding whether or not AI could be conscious. Here, we consider the question of whether AI could