Futurology

Current AI models could be as conscious as many ‘lower order’ living things

I find a lot of the assumptions people make about AI consciousness very puzzling.

A frequent assumption is that because consciousness has emerged from animal brain architecture, therefore it follows that it will do so from electronic circuitry. However, it's entirely possible an AGI thousands of times more capable than an average human brain could have no consciousness at all.

Consciousness might be some unusual quirk that only arises in very specific types of circumstances, and biological brains, by chance, were one of those. Who knows? As no one understands how consciousness arises, we can't say.

The stronger the claims people make about AI consciousness, the less I have confidence in them.