Media takes AI x-risk seriously; next frontier question: AI consciousness
cccalum · x · 2026-09-29
Calum Chace notes that the media has started to take AI existential risk seriously and predicts AI consciousness will be the next debate. He highlights researcher Patrick Butlin's piece asking whether you have to be a living being to be conscious — a key question for whether AI systems could ever be conscious.
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