The State of AI Consciousness Research

Epistemic status: a survey, not an argument. I am agnostic on whether any current system is conscious; the claim is only that the question is researchable.This piece surveys the empirical research on AI consciousness. The premise of that research, and of the survey, is that the question does not have to wait on a solution to the hard problem of consciousness: methods familiar from psychology, cognitive science and mechanistic interpretability can be applied to AI systems now, and their results c...