The research on AI minds,
and the questions it leaves open.
What the subject is, personas and functional emotions, introspection and self-report, motivation and agency, and welfare. Mapped from behavioral experiments, interpretability and the labs' own welfare assessments. Read the state of the field ↗
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Five ways into digital minds
Questions can belong to more than one clusterSubject & Substrate
Whose mind is it? Weights, instance, conversation or character — what are we actually studying?
Explore cluster 02Personas & Functional Emotions
The characters models play, and the emotion-like states that shape their behavior.
Explore cluster 03Introspection & Self-report
What models can know about their own states, and when their reports are evidence.
Explore cluster 04Motivation & Agency
Goals, preferences and drives, including the ones never verbalized.
Explore cluster 05Welfare
Moral status, evidence of wellbeing, and what we might owe.
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