If AI becomes conscious: here’s how researchers will know
A group of neuroscientists, philosophers, and computer scientists have developed a checklist of criteria to assess whether an AI system has a high chance of being conscious, as they believe that the failure to identify consciousness in AI has moral implications and may change how such entities are treated.
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