2 papers
cs.AI2026
AI and Consciousness
Eric Schwitzgebel
This is a skeptical overview of the literature on AI consciousness. We will soon create AI systems that are conscious according to some influential, mainstream theories of consciou…
q-bio.NC2026
The Copernican Argument for Alien Consciousness; The Mimicry Argument Against Robot Consciousness
Eric Schwitzgebel, Jeremy Pober
On broadly Copernican grounds, we are entitled to assume that apparently behaviorally sophisticated extraterrestrial entities ("aliens") would be conscious. Otherwise, we humans wo…