'If we build conscious AI we must do X' — why consciousness detection has no clear test
JoyfulSisyphean · x · 2026-11-02
JoyfulSisyphean argues that claims like "if we build conscious AI, we must do X" are frustrating: there is no agreed set of behaviors displayed by all and only conscious entities, so even if conscious AI is created, identifying it won't be clear-cut. dioscuri adds that the correlation "all known conscious entities are alive" proves nothing without an explanatory mechanism.
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