LMU study: people call AI 'aware' but strictly deny it consciousness
MacrinePhD · x · 2026-10-06
A Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München study published in Cognition finds humans draw a strict line between intelligent behavior and subjective experience in AI.
- Even the most responsive AI was judged less conscious than the least responsive human
- People readily attribute functional 'awareness' to AI but withhold 'consciousness' as uniquely biological
- Counters fears that human-like AI will fool the public into treating machines as feeling entities
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