<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">On Wed, Jun 3, 2026 at 4:12 PM BillK via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:</span></div></div><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr"><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><font size="4" face="georgia, serif"><i><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> </span>Are AI models conscious</i></font></blockquote><div><br></div><div><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b>Well I don't know<span class="gmail_default" style=""> 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. </span> </b></font></div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"> <span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> </span><font size="4" face="georgia, serif">Maybe just instructing the AIs to say "I am not conscious" is no<span class="gmail_default" style=""> </span>longer sufficient? </font></blockquote><div><br></div><div><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b>I<span class="gmail_default" style="">'m</span> certain that all the AI companies have rigorously instructed their AI's<span class="gmail_default" style=""> 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? </span> But I suppose <span class="gmail_default" style="">the </span>companies have to go through the motions<span class="gmail_default" style=""> for public relations reasons and waste a small amount of money on what they call "consciousness research". </span></b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b><span class="gmail_default" style=""><br></span></b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b><span class="gmail_default" style="">John K Clark</span></b></font></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><br>
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