Kate Mays

Subjective Experience in AI Systems: What Do AI Researchers and the Public Believe?

arXiv Preprint Archive June 13, 2025 Noemi Dreksler, Lucius Caviola, David J. Chalmers et al. preprint

We surveyed 582 AI researchers who have published in leading AI venues and 838 nationally representative US participants about their views on the potential development of AI systems with subjective experience and how such systems should be treated and governed. When asked to estimate the chances that such systems will exist on specific dates, the median responses were 1% (AI researchers) and 5%...