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When couples disagree about whether AI systems are truly conscious

My partner is convinced that the new AI system they work with daily is showing signs of genuine consciousness and I think they're anthropomorphizing sophisticated responses, and we can't talk about it anymore without me sounding dismissive and them sounding like they're losing touch with reality.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Two people are struggling to bridge fundamentally different ways of interpreting the same evidence about machine consciousness.

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Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with AI and consciousness — the hard question?”

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