Can We Ever Know If AI Is Conscious? A Cambridge Perspective
Here’s something that should make you uncomfortable: we’re building machines that might be conscious, and we have no way to check. Not “no way right now.” Not “no way until better neuroscience tools arrive.” Dr. Tom McClelland, a philosopher at the University of Cambridge, argues in a recent analysis that we may never have a reliable method to detect consciousness in AI—and honestly, I’m not sure which possibility is more unsettling. ...