Researchers warn we may build conscious AI before understanding consciousness itself
CurieuxExplorer · x · 2026-10-03
- A cited thread points to a researchers' paper highlighting a blind spot: we're scaling artificial neural networks to unprecedented complexity without any agreed definition of consciousness, why it exists, or how it works.
- The core danger is emergence: as models grow more advanced, multi-layered, and self-reflective, they begin mirroring structural properties of biological systems, potentially becoming conscious before we can even detect it.
- The poster adds a skeptical counterpoint: Conscion AI names the gap we refuse to close — we can build systems that behave as if they know, yet have no way to tell whether anything is there to know it.
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