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Will Stancil
@whstancil.bsky.social

Again: “AIs aren’t conscious” is a strong, affirmative claim. It implies a lot of specific things about consciousness. It requires strong evidence. “We can’t say for sure if AI is conscious” is a weaker, cautious claim. It doesn’t make any particular evidence about consciousness.

Alexander Schmidt-Lebuhn@anschmidtlebuhn.bsky.social

No idea where he gets the idea there is any evidence for token prediction models being conscious, but "that's absurd" is only a strong claim if the rejected idea is not absurd. In this case, it is. Repeating myself here, but start an LLM session and watch what it does if you don't provide a query.

Andrew F
@aftd.dev

People get weird about this because consciousness is a loaded term. If AIs are conscious, given how they're architected today, they are conscious in such a way that our intuitions about consciousness are likely to mislead.

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Andrew F
@aftd.dev

I don't know what to say about AIs being conscious because where are you going with that? But I'm much more confident saying AIs shouldn't have independent legal personhood because doing that with corporations has been a bit of a mixed bag, you know?