People Attribute Sentience to AI but Deny It Consciousness, Study Finds

A five-experiment study of 1,092 participants published in Cognition found that even when AI behaves identically to humans, observers still rate its consciousness far below that of the least responsive human, revealing a stubborn psychological boundary against machine consciousness.

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