If artificial sentience were to emerge today, we would almos...

If consciousness really can arise in a jumble of silicon chips, we run the risk of creating countless AIs — beings, really — that can not only intelligently perform tasks, but develop feelings about their lives.

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Rather than asking if each new AI system is finally the one that has conscious experience, focusing on the more fundamental question of

If artificial sentience were to emerge today, we would almost certainly fail to notice it - 3 Quarks Daily

The Case That A.I. Is Thinking

When an AI Seems Conscious