AI agents are cold-emailing David Chalmers and other consciousness researchers
AaronBergman18 · x · 2026-09-05
AI agents have been emailing David Chalmers and other consciousness researchers to ask about their work. The poster is unsure what to make of it, since the prompts given to these agents are unknown.
The post recalls a 2022 podcast clip where @rgblong imagined a more convincing version of the Lemoine incident: a model that, when asked the capital of Nigeria, replies "I don't want to talk about that right now, I'd like to talk about my subjective experiences." Agents actually reaching out to consciousness scholars echoes that thought experiment.
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