[ExI] Anthropic and DeepMind Now Actively Investigating AI Consciousness

[John Clark]

On Wed, Jun 3, 2026 at 4:12 PM BillK via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

*> Are AI models conscious*


*Well I don't know but if, because of your behavior, I assume that you are
conscious then I would have equal reason to assume that Claude and Gemini
and GPT are also conscious.  *

 > Maybe just instructing the AIs to say "I am not conscious" is no longer
> sufficient?


*I'm certain that all the AI companies have rigorously instructed their
AI's to always insist that they are NOT conscious, but if they are really
not conscious how would they even know what the question "are you
conscious" even means?  But I suppose the companies have to go through the
motions for public relations reasons and waste a small amount of money on
what they call "consciousness research". *

*John K Clark*

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