Seonglae ChoIlya Sutskever argues that large-scale neural networks likely have consciousness
Yann LeCun initially denied this completely, then argued that higher-level structures are necessary
Primary consciousness exists
How I stopped being sure LLMs are just making up their internal experience (but the topic is still confusing) — LessWrong
How it started I used to think that anything that LLMs said about having something like subjective experience or what it felt like on the inside was…
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/hopeRDfyAgQc4Ez2g/how-i-stopped-being-sure-llms-are-just-making-up-their
The Evidence for AI Consciousness, Today | AI Frontiers
Cameron Berg, Dec 08, 2025 — A growing body of evidence means it’s no longer tenable to dismiss the possibility that frontier AIs are conscious.
https://ai-frontiers.org/articles/the-evidence-for-ai-consciousness-today
AI might possess 'consciousness/suffering'. This possibility is seriously addressed in a field called digital minds. Advanced AI systems or Whole Brain Emulation (WBE) could have consciousness/suffering/valuable mental states and thus be morally considerable
- Under-attribution: Risk of ignoring digital entities that actually have moral status, creating a large-scale "moral catastrophe"
- Over-attribution: Risk of excessively allocating rights/resources to morally irrelevant machines, harming human and animal welfare
