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If AI is conscious, it is so by accident, because we do not know what consciousness is

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consciousness What it is for there to be something it is like to be a system, and whether that can be measured.

Can a machine be conscious?under our view: Nobody knows what consciousness is, so whether a machine has it is unclear even in principle

What Noah Smith actually said

  1. Noah Smith Economics writer; author of the Noahpinion newsletter
    But since we don't know what consciousness is, how can we make AI learn it? If it exists it exists by accident

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