Machine Consciousness
Could there be something it is like to be a model? Serious people now ask.
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The hard problem — why physical processing is accompanied by experience — meets systems that discuss their own putative feelings. Positions range from confident denial (current architectures lack whatever matters) to cautious uncertainty: Anthropic launched a model-welfare research area and gave Claude the ability to end abusive conversations, explicitly citing moral uncertainty. No test for machine experience exists; the site reports positions, not answers.
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