New paper suggests AI might be conscious during training
skdh · x · 2026-09-23
Physicist Sabine Hossenfelder shares a new paper arguing that AI models may have some form of consciousness during the training process itself, challenging the common assumption that consciousness would only arise at inference/deployment time. Details require reading the linked paper.
Related event: New Paper Suggests AI May Be Conscious During Training(2 posts)→
More from AGI Musings
- Biotech founder: AI gave me a 10-100x productivity boost in rare-disease drug design — zakkohane · 2026-09-23
- AI risk doesn't need EA's conceptual machinery, argues zetalyrae — austinc3301 · 2026-09-23
- The First Jobs AI May Kill Are the Ones People Need to Gain Experience — yi111 · 2026-09-23
- Browser-use agents are already AGI for white-collar work, argues indie dev — yihui_indie · 2026-09-23
- AI researcher: LLMs prove calculative deduction is limited, embrace intuitive reasoning — granawkins · 2026-09-23
- Anthropic researcher's three-bucket framework for doing science in the AI era — CatAstro_Piyush · 2026-09-23