{"id":24004,"date":"2026-07-19T11:37:31","date_gmt":"2026-07-19T09:37:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/19\/could-ai-be-conscious\/"},"modified":"2026-07-19T11:37:31","modified_gmt":"2026-07-19T09:37:31","slug":"could-ai-be-conscious","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/19\/could-ai-be-conscious\/","title":{"rendered":"Could AI be conscious?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Experts believe it\u2019s at least possible. We urgently need a plan to navigate the ethical implications<\/p>\n

In January, the AI company Anthropic published a new constitution<\/a> for Claude, its most advanced large language model (LLM), which contained the comment: \u201cWe are caught in a difficult position where we neither want\u00a0to\u00a0overstate the likelihood of Claude\u2019s moral patienthood nor dismiss it out of hand.\u201d A month later, Anthropic\u2019s CEO Dario Amodei went on a podcast and said his company couldn\u2019t rule out the possibility that Claude was conscious. Philosopher David Chalmers, who coined the phrase \u201cthe hard problem of consciousness\u201d, has said there is a significant chance of conscious LLMs within a decade. And what about Claude itself? When asked during testing to estimate the probability that it\u00a0is a moral patient<\/em>, meaning that its wellbeing matters\u00a0in its own right, it gave numbers ranging from 5% to 40% and stressed how uncertain it was.<\/p>\n

Modern AI systems are extraordinarily complex, and they are advancing fast. In terms of structural complexity and computational scale, by some measures a few are already in the range of a mouse brain, and at recent growth rates, they could reach the range of a human brain within five to 10 years.<\/p>\n

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\nExperts believe it\u2019s at least possible. We urgently need a plan to navigate the ethical implications
\nIn January, the AI company Anthropic published a new constitution for Claude, its most advanced large language model (LLM), which contained the comment: \u201cWe are caught in a difficult position where we neither want\u00a0to\u00a0overstate the likelihood of Claude\u2019s moral patienthood nor dismiss it out of hand.\u201d A month later, Anthropic\u2019s CEO Dario Amodei went on a podcast and said his company couldn\u2019t rule out the possibility that Claude was conscious. Philosopher David Chalmers, who coined the phrase \u201cthe hard problem of consciousness\u201d, has said there is a significant chance of conscious LLMs within a decade. And what about Claude itself? When asked during testing to estimate the probability that it\u00a0is a moral patient, meaning that its wellbeing matters\u00a0in its own right, it gave numbers ranging from 5% to 40% and stressed how uncertain it was.
\nModern AI systems are extraordinarily complex, and they are advancing fast. In terms of structural complexity and computational scale, by some measures a few are already in the range of a mouse brain, and at recent growth rates, they could reach the range of a human brain within five to 10 years. Continue reading…Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Experts believe it\u2019s at least possible. We urgently need a plan to navigate the ethical implications In January, the AI company Anthropic published a new constitution for Claude, its most advanced large language model (LLM), which contained the comment: \u201cWe are caught in a difficult position where we neither want\u00a0to\u00a0overstate the likelihood of Claude\u2019s moral …<\/p>\n

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