ICML Paper Challenges Claims of AI Consciousness

An ICML position paper examines whether AI can have subjective experience and argues that current systems are not conscious. Its “plug-pulling paradox” suggests that a pleading AI may drain human empathy, revealing more about our emotional responses than about machine sentience.

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