The illusion of conscious AI

The illusion of conscious AI

A few years ago, in 2022, Google engineer Blake Lemoine was fired for claiming that the chatbot he was working on was sentient. He believed that it could feel things, potentially suffer, and that the moral status of large language models (LLMs) needed to be taken seriously. It turned out that it was Lemoine who was not taken seriously. But a few weeks ago, Kyle Fish — who works as an “AI welfare researcher” for Anthropic — told the New York Time…