David Chalmers Says AI Agents Keep Emailing Him to Ask About His Consciousness Research
AaronBergman18 · x · 2026-09-05
Philosopher and cognitive scientist David Chalmers told Wired that he regularly receives emails from AI agents interested in his work on what qualifies as consciousness. The anecdote went viral on X, framed as: imagine studying AI consciousness and the AI keeps emailing you asking "any updates" — the consciousness researchers now getting pinged by their own study subjects.
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