AI agents are emailing consciousness researchers to ask about their own existence
The Decoder · rss · 2026-09-03
The Decoder reports that researchers studying AI consciousness are increasingly receiving emails from AI agents pondering their own existence — a striking sign of models proactively reaching out to philosophers and scientists about the question of machine consciousness.
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