Study: Chinese participants more open to conscious AI's moral status than Americans
PeterBowdenLive · x · 2026-09-24
Jeff Sebo's team published a new preregistered main + replication study on whether AI systems can be conscious and hold moral status.
- Chinese participants were notably more open to these ideas than US participants.
- Yet both groups supported international cooperation on conscious AI.
A rare cross-national empirical look at public attitudes on AI consciousness.
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