The State of AI Consciousness Research by Noa Weiss

Cross­posted from LessWrong. Drafted with AI as­sis­tance, with heavy edit­ing by me; all claims and sources ver­ified.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 cog­ni­tive sci­ence can be ap­plied to AI sys­tems now, and their re­sults can nar­row the space of plau­si­ble an­swers.Enough of this...