[ExI] Anthropic and DeepMind Now Actively Investigating AI Consciousness

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Anthropic and DeepMind Now Actively Investigating AI Consciousness
"We think the question is serious enough to study carefully."
By Frank Landymore      Published Jun 3, 2026

<https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/anthropic-deemind-ai-consciousness>
Quote:
Are AI models conscious, and if not, could they be in the near future?
The possibility is far-fetched, but AI companies seem to feel it’s in
their best interests to keep the question as open-ended as possible.

Now, the Financial Times reports that three of the industry’s top dogs
— Anthropic, Google’s AI lab DeepMind, and Meta — have all hired
experts in fields like psychology, philosophy, and ethics to pursue
research into machine consciousness and AI welfare.
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Maybe just instructing the AIs to say "I am not conscious" is no
longer sufficient?     ;)
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