UAI 2026 Camera ready up on arXiv as v3!
I've written a long-form LW blogpost on how the technical aspects of this work connect to NeuroAI and to AI sentience/welfare, entitled:
"What Capable Agents Must Know: Why AI Consciousness May Be an Inevitable Byproduct of Capability"
1/ As AI agents become increasingly capable, what must *inevitably* emerge inside them?
We prove selection theorems: strong task performance forces world models, belief-like memory and—under task mixtures—persistent variables resembling core primitives associated with emotion.