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Why are AI companies worrying about consciousness? And should they? Great piece in @washingtonpost.com by @nitasha.bsky.social - in which I offer a few skeptical words www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2... (for more, see my TED talk www.ted.com/talks/anil_s...)

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  • Anthropic, Google, and Meta have hired computer scientists, neuroscientists, and philosophers over the past year to study whether AI models have forms of emotion.
  • Anthropic hired Kyle Fish in September 2024 as its first dedicated AI welfare researcher and stood up a Model Welfare team.
  • Neuroscientists and brain experts remain broadly skeptical that today's AI models are, or could soon be, conscious.
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The booming AI industry, flush with investor cash, is mounting an expansive, but largely opaque campaign to influence midterm races around the country.

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Before the launch of ChatGPT in 2022, Google engineer Blake Lemoine told The Post he believed an AI system the tech giant was keeping behind closed doors was sentient. He was fired. Four years later, Google is openly exploring whether AI can be conscious.

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Four years ago I broke the story about Google engineer Blake Lemoine, who thought the company's AI model was sentient. That was 5 months before the launch of ChatGPT. Today, tech execs yapping about AI consciousness is practically mainstream wapo.st/3SDUIhI

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Why are AI companies worrying about consciousness? And should they? Great piece in @washingtonpost.com by @nitasha.bsky.social - in which I offer a few skeptical words www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2... (for more, see my TED talk www.ted.com/talks/anil_s...)

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