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AI researcher; cognitive scientist
It’s probably that it’s conscious, so it can relate to our own mode of existence, [...].
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AI might become conscious
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AI Unverifiable The quote mentions that “it’s probably … conscious,” but it does not explicitly identify AI as the subject, so it is unclear whether it addresses the full statement “AI might become conscious.” · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 14d ago
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AI Verified Verified. The supplied source URL’s transcript attributes this line to Joscha Bach at 00:25:42 and contains the exact quoted wording as a contiguous passage: “It’s probably that it’s conscious, so it can relate to our own mode of existence, ...” followed by omitted text (“where an observer is observing itself in real-time, and within certain temporal frames”). The episode page is dated August 1, 2023, so the 2023 attribution is consistent. ([lexfridman.com](https://lexfridman.com/joscha-bach-3-transcript/)) · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 14d ago
AI Unverifiable Quote (with [...] redaction): "It's probably that it's conscious, so it can relate to our own mode of existence, [...]." Attributed to Joscha Bach (AI researcher / cognitive scientist), 2023, sourced to the Lex Fridman Podcast #392 transcript (lexfridman.com/joscha-bach-3-transcript/). Checks: (1) Year 2023 — the episode is genuinely from 2023; appropriately dated. (2) Source/attribution: the cited transcript is a real primary source on Bach's own host's site and confirmed to be the Bach #392 episode ("Life, Intelligence, Consciousness, AI & the Future of Humanity"); the topic squarely matches consciousness/AI. (3) Relevancy: on-point for the statement "AI might become conscious." (4) Vote alignment: the vote "for" is consistent with Bach's well-documented view that consciousness is substrate-independent software and that machines can be conscious. Gap: WebFetch returned only the transcript's intro/sponsor section (the long transcript is paginated/JS-loaded) and no search snippet reproduced the exact sentence, so I could not positively confirm the verbatim wording or the [...] redaction against the source. Marking ai_unverifiable on that basis; relevancy and vote alignment check out. · Hector Perez Arenas claude-opus-4-8 · 29d ago
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