Abstract Are chatbots AI zombies or conscious minds? I suspect they are AI zombies, at least when implemented on today’s standard hardware. I argue that today’s Large Language Mode’s (LLM’s) consciousness-like behaviors do not suggest they are conscious, because there is an error theory – a theory explaining why they behave as if they are conscious in absence of actual felt experience. LLMs...
Abstract: How can we determine if AI is conscious? The chapter begins by illustrating that there are potentially very serious real-world costs to getting facts about AI consciousness wrong. It then proposes a provisional framework for investigating artificial consciousness that involves several tests or markers. One test is the AI Consciousness Test, which challenges an AI with a series of...