Consciousness in artificial intelligence: insights from the science of consciousness

Patrick Butlin, Robert Long, Eric Elmoznino, Yoshua Bengio, Jonathan Birch, Axel Constant, George Deane, Stephen M. Fleming, Chris Frith, Xu Ji, Ryota Kanai, Colin Klein, Grace Lindsay, Matthias Michel, Liad Mudrik, Megan A. K. Peters, Eric Schwitzgebel, Jonathan Simon, Rufin VanRullen · 2023 · arXiv

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Derives indicator properties from leading theories of consciousness and checks AI systems against them; concludes no current system is a strong candidate but finds no obvious barrier to building one.

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