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My mostly boring views about AI consciousness

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People have been asking if current ML systems might be conscious. I think overly strong answers to this in both directions include "no" and "sure but so might atoms" as well as almost any variant of "yes". Here I'll try to give a sense of my own views of machine consciousness, what they're grounded in, and how much I think this question matters.

My mostly boring views about AI consciousness Amanda Askell Feb 21, 2022 141 17 24 Share People have been asking if current ML systems might be conscious. I think overly strong answers to this in both directions include "certainly not" and "sure, but so might atoms" as well as almost any variant of "yes". Here I’ll try to give a sense of my own views of AI consciousness, what they're grounded in, and how much I think it matters. This is a topic with a lot of different threads—too many to cover satisfactorily in a single post. So there are many places where I just describe my views and give a r

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