Animal Welfare: Anthropic Has Failed, at AI Consciousness Research

AI companies that are doing research to understand the inner workings of AI models are already doing AI consciousness or LLMs sentience research. For humans, consciousness is how the mind works. For AI, it is unlikely to be different. Several observations that have already been made about similarities of AI to the human mind are indicators of a fraction of consciousness. To be serious about studying AI consciousness, novel assumptions are necessary against many of the impeding assumptions in consciousness research.

Most human rights can be ascribed to human intelligence. Simply, humans have rights, also, because of human intelligence, not just because humans have consciousness. Intelligence is used to make a case, debate, or argue about rights and welfare. Intelligence is the basis of the law: the consequences of actions are its power. There are several cases where intelligence [or the better debate] wins, not ...