Samuel Kimpton-Nye

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Philosopher at the University of Southampton researching metaphysics, consciousness, and artificial intelligence.

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AI might become conscious
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In this paper, I argue that the thoroughly algorithmic nature of current AI systems (such as LLMs) is no obstacle to their being conscious, despite strong apparent reasons to the contrary.
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