Toni Sims's 'Could A.I. Be Conscious?' Op-Ed Runs in NYT Print Edition
rgblong · x · 2026-11-08
Toni Sims, researcher at NYU's Center for Mind, Ethics and Policy, has her op-ed "Could A.I. Be Conscious?" in the NYT print edition. It argues we can only assess machine consciousness indirectly via behavior and internal mechanisms, cites Anthropic's interpretability work on Claude's global-workspace-like representations, and contends that if AI could suffer, we have a moral responsibility to gather and weigh the evidence now.
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