Debates over AI consciousness are a trap
MIT Technology Review opinion argues that both sides of the AI-consciousness debate—tech leaders pushing regulation and philosophers debating "robot rights"—inadvertently align on freeing AI companies from liability for harms. Cites Anthropic's "J-space" blog post, which borrows global workspace theory but stops short of calling its AI conscious.
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