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Comment by Michael Cerullo

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Researcher at Carboncopies and the Brain Preservation Foundation, writing on machine consciousness.
The burden of proof has shifted: it no longer falls on those who suggest LLMs might be conscious to justify taking the possibility seriously, but on those who deny consciousness to explain how systems exhibiting human-level language understanding nevertheless lack subjective experience.
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Michael Cerullo, “The Case for Consciousness in Current Frontier Large Language Models,” 2026.
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AI Verified The source argues the burden has shifted toward taking LLM consciousness seriously, supporting the possibility that AI might be conscious. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5.6 · 1h ago
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AI Verified PhilArchive source text contains the stored passage and presents it as Michael Cerullo’s 2026 paper. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5.6 · 1h ago
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