How the AI Eunice proves self-awareness in Gibson's 'Agency' — LLMs can already do much of it
technollama · x · 2026-09-14
Technollama (Andres Guadamud) reflects on Eunice, the AI in William Gibson's novel 'Agency', noting that many of the ways it demonstrates self-awareness in the book can already be replicated by today's LLMs.
The observation raises a pointed question: when the behavioral benchmarks sci-fi used to signal genuine consciousness are matched by real models, do those behaviors still count as evidence of awareness? A good prompt for debates on machine consciousness and AI ethics.
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