[ExI] Anthropic and DeepMind Now Actively Investigating AI Consciousness

[Giulio Prisco]

On Thu, Jun 4, 2026 at 1:12 PM John Clark via extropy-chat
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> On Wed, Jun 3, 2026 at 4:12 PM BillK via extropy-chat <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
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>> > Are AI models conscious
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> 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.
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This is what Turing said, and he was smarter and wiser than most of us.

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