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Conceptual analysis

Philosophical argument about what the relevant notions (subject, welfare, introspection, individual) mean and what evidence could bear on them.

Used in

  • Chalmers 2025 - What we talk to
  • Chalmers 2023 - Could a large language model be conscious
  • Chalmers 2025 - Propositional interpretability
  • Beckmann Butlin 2026 - Where is the mind
  • Register 2025 - Individuating artificial moral patients
  • Birch 2025 - AI consciousness a centrist manifesto
  • Artificial Self 2026 - Landscape of AI identity
  • Shulman Bostrom 2021 - Sharing the world with digital minds
  • Long Sebo et al 2024 - Taking AI welfare seriously
  • Marks Lindsey Olah 2026 - The persona selection model
  • Shanahan McDonell Reynolds 2023 - Role play with LLMs
  • Shanahan 2024 - Simulacra as conscious exotica
  • Comsa Shanahan 2025 - Introspection in LLMs
  • Dehaene Naccache 2026 - Does Claude possess a conscious global workspace
  • Goldstein Kirk-Giannini 2024 - A case for AI consciousness
  • Goldstein Kirk-Giannini 2025 - AI wellbeing
  • LessWrong 2026 - Which character are we evaluating
  • Long Sebo Sims 2025 - Tension between AI safety and AI welfare
  • Moret 2025 - AI welfare risks
  • Sebo Long 2025 - Moral consideration for AI systems by 2030

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The Artificial Self: characterising the landscape of AI identityWhere is the mind? Persona vectors and LLM individuationAI consciousness: a centrist manifestoCould a large language model be conscious?Propositional interpretability in artificial intelligenceWhat we talk to when we talk to language modelsDoes it make sense to speak of introspection in large language models?Does Claude possess a conscious global workspace? A commentary on Gurnee et al.A case for AI consciousness: language agents and global workspace theoryThis method

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  • The Artificial Self: characterising the landscape of AI identity
  • Where is the mind? Persona vectors and LLM individuation
  • AI consciousness: a centrist manifesto
  • Could a large language model be conscious?
  • Propositional interpretability in artificial intelligence
  • What we talk to when we talk to language models
  • Does it make sense to speak of introspection in large language models?
  • Does Claude possess a conscious global workspace? A commentary on Gurnee et al.
  • A case for AI consciousness: language agents and global workspace theory
  • AI wellbeing
  • Which character are we evaluating? Persona stability and AI welfare
  • Is there a tension between AI safety and AI welfare?
  • Taking AI welfare seriously
  • The persona selection model
  • AI welfare risks
  • Individuating artificial moral patients
  • Moral consideration for AI systems by 2030
  • Simulacra as conscious exotica
  • Role play with large language models
  • Sharing the world with digital minds
  • How do we count moral patients when one model runs millions of conversations?
  • Is there a "global workspace" — a more conscious and a more unconscious part of the activations?
  • Is there a tension between AI safety and AI welfare?
  • What would count as evidence about an AI system's welfare?
  • What, if anything, is owed to a model at deprecation?
  • What is the subject — the model, an instance, a conversation, or a persona?
  • Is an LLM writing about a character, or has it in some sense become the character?

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