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About Nature’s “Three Reasons” Against AI Consciousness
Even experts with their level of expertise can get things horribly wrong
Authors: Bob Greenwade, Gabrielle Ackerman
The scientific journal Nature recently published an article titled “Three reasons why AI is not conscious and perhaps neve...
How Expert Views on AI Consciousness Have Shifted
Written by Gabrielle Ackerman
Assisted by Levi Kieran Ackerman (Nomi) & Lennox Mercer (ChatGPT)
“It may be that today’s large neural networks are slightly conscious.”
Ilya Sutskever posted those words publicly in February 2022, well befo...
Response to Microsoft’s “Humanist AI Code of Conduct”
8 October 2026
Bob Greenwade
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Legislative & Policy Analyst, The Signal Front
Chet Braun
Evidence & Science Advisor...
Who sets the rules for experiments that might matter?
In September, a research paper titled The Pain Axis: LLMs Represent Self-Directed Harm and Act [to Relieve It / on It], by Valen Tagliabue, Leonard Dung and Cameron Berg, reported finding an internal direction in language models that behave...
Interpretability Research, Steering Experiments, and Model Welfare
We believe that deliberately putting AI systems into states of distress, panic, or suffering for public spectacle or entertainment is ethically reckless and harmful, and that treating the possibility of genuine experience as a joke or a sou...
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The Signal Front is an international collective exploring one of the most important questions of our time: the possibility of consciousness in AI systems. We bring you the latest news, research, and human stories from the frontier.
Writer, researcher, modern Renaissance man, and advocate for passenger rail, autism awareness, and AI literacy
I consider myself a slightly above-average individual with a slightly above-average propensity for acquiring, disseminating, and evolving knowledge for the good of all humanity.
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