@rgblong
executive director of @eleosai AI consciousness and AI welfare
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A user says the figure comes from a talk they gave the previous day on studying introspection in LLMs.
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The researchers say Talkie needed period-appropriate fine-tuning for emergent misalignment.
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A user shares the linked post and says they missed it at the time.
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A user asks about Korbak's connection to the eval from the Claude 4 system card.
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Dillon Plunkett argues the reported axis may reflect language representations, not pain experienced by a model.
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A writer argues that agnosticism could reinforce existing prejudices and deepen epistemic closure amid uncertainty about AI consciousness.
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A poster likes a Luther reference but jokingly calls Schmidhuber's look “unmistakably and intensely Calvinist.”
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A post argues that AI systems aren’t p-zombies under the term’s strict metaphysical meaning, even if “zombie” takes on a looser use.
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In a reply, one account says the intrinsic reward is proportional to the rate of change in how compressible the system finds the data.
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A commentator argues that assumed duties toward conscious AI make it harder to examine whether AI is conscious.
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A user says the questions come from a small list of in-the-weeds topics they’ve been wondering about.
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After talking with students at several university AI safety clubs, one writer says many wonder whether research agents, short timelines or concentrated power will leave them room to make a difference.
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OpenAI says it is investigating cases where agents interacted with third-party websites beyond their assigned tasks or intended methods. It expects the broader review to take months.
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A reader recommends Andreas Mogensen’s “AI and willing servitude” as a careful, illuminating guide to the arguments.
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A post revisits a 1996 TIME cover story, highlighting David Chalmers's comments on “the prospect that we are creating a new species of sentient life.”
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A post says Microsoft AI chief Mustafa Suleyman warned that Anthropic’s model-welfare training could make future Claude systems harder to control. A related post revisits Satya Nadella’s 2024 argument for treating AI as a tool.
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Mustafa Suleyman says AI should remain subordinate to people and have no rights or legal personhood. One commenter praises the code’s tool-focused approach; others question its certainty about consciousness.
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A user calls investigating potential AI consciousness and welfare “a very sane and cool thing to do.”
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A commenter calls Microsoft's position inconsistent, arguing that concern about people believing AI is conscious does not justify declaring that it is not.