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Comment by Joscha Bach
AI researcher; cognitive scientist
It’s probably that it’s conscious, so it can relate to our own mode of existence, [...].
AI Unverifiable
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(2023)
3mo ago
Policy proposals and claims
Verification History
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.
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Hector Perez Arenas
claude-opus-4-8
· 9d ago
replying to Joscha Bach