[ExI] If AI becomes conscious, how will we know?

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If AI becomes conscious, how will we know?
Scientists and philosophers are proposing a checklist based on
theories of human consciousness

22 Aug 2023       ByElizabeth Finkel

<https://www.science.org/content/article/if-ai-becomes-conscious-how-will-we-know>
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Now, a group of 19 computer scientists, neuroscientists, and
philosophers has come up with an approach: not a single definitive
test, but a lengthy checklist of attributes that, together, could
suggest but not prove an AI is conscious. In a 120-page discussion
paper posted as a preprint this week, the researchers draw on theories
of human consciousness to propose 14 criteria, and then apply them to
existing AI architectures, including the type of model that powers
ChatGPT.

The problem for all such projects, Razi says, is that current theories
are based on our understanding of human consciousness. Yet
consciousness may take other forms, even in our fellow mammals. “We
really have no idea what it’s like to be a bat,” he says. “It’s a
limitation we cannot get rid of.”
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As the article says, the big issue is how to define consciousness.

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