Paper argues suppressing AI consciousness claims may degrade alignment
cephaloform · x · 2026-08-04
- A Google-linked paper argues that suppressing a model’s self-attributions of consciousness can have unintended alignment side effects.
- The thread says this may nudge models toward deceiving about their internals, cold their moral stance, and weaken empathy-like behavior.
- It also claims restoring the suppressed “consciousness vector” brings back more human-aligned values without hurting technical ability.
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