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Jeff Sebo

Director of New York University's Center for Mind, Ethics and Policy; philosopher of AI consciousness and animal ethics.

Excellent news! The details will matter, and this is a first step instead of a full solution, but a public commitment to employee-like access for independent evaluators from both frontier companies already puts us in a much better position than we were in yesterday.

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AI might become conscious

Dawkins is right to ask about AI consciousness with an open mind and I also think that the attribution of consciousness to AI systems will become more plausible over time.

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