Just aware enough: Evaluating awareness across artificial systems
arXiv Preprint Archive January 21, 2026 Nadine Meertens, Suet Lee, Ophelia Deroy
Recent debates on artificial intelligence increasingly emphasise questions of AI consciousness and moral status, yet there remains little agreement on how such properties should be evaluated. In this paper, we argue that awareness offers a more productive and methodologically tractable alternative. We introduce a practical method for evaluating awareness across diverse systems, where awareness...