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This is why we need to beat the “AI is conscious” idea down into the earth whenever we can. If people believe it, they will absolutely prioritise the well-being of Claude over the well-being of actual conscious humans.

It’s software. We made it. Is a book conscious? Yes, it seems alive to you, and that is because it is performing a massive exploit on your human brain, borrowing language-based notions of what consciousness is

Okay, so to answer my question: is an AI agent conscious? Maybe for some definitions of conscious, because conscious is a word that we used to describe certain states of awareness that we see. I’m a conscious being, but not when I’m asleep. So yes, there may be a tormented definition that fits.