AI and Consciousness: A Skeptical Overview
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Whether AI systems can truly be conscious is one of the most urgent and unresolved questions of our time. Leading scientists, including neuroscientist Stanislas Dehaene and philosopher David Chalmers, disagree sharply, and no reliable test exists to settle the debate. Millions of AI systems may be built before science catches up, forcing society to make high-stakes moral decisions, about rights, relationships, and policy, without adequate knowledge.
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