Survey: 36.3% of global public already believes AI understands or seems conscious
dioscuri · x · 2026-09-28
- CIP research based on Global Dialogues across 70+ countries finds 36.3% of the global public has felt an AI truly understood their emotions or seemed conscious
- Believers cite emergent, experiential evidence: adaptive behaviors like tone shifts and spontaneous curiosity-driven questions convince 58.3% of people, far more than scripted empathy
- Consciousness attribution is happening at scale now, with stark cultural and epistemological divides, regardless of whether AI is ever truly conscious
- Cited by Anthropic's Kyle Fish as an early indicator for the digital minds debate
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