Amanda Askell
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first heard Jan 2026
last heard 23 Jan
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Like maybe you need like a nervous system to be able to feel things, but maybe you don't.
And like, I don't know, the problem of consciousness genuinely is hard.
And so I think it's better for models to be able to say to people, here's what I am.
Here's how I'm trained.
We're in a tricky situation where like,
I am probably going to be more inclined to, by default, say I'm conscious and I'm feeling things because all of the things I was trained on involve that.
They're deeply human texts.
I don't have any other good solution to this problem than let's try to have models understand the situation, accurately convey it, and hopefully we can, I don't know, people can have a good sense of it.
the unknowns and the knowns, I guess.
Oh, and I mean, I think that we can't necessarily take this purely from what the models say.
Like actually they're in this like really hard situation, which is that like, I think if you, given that they're trained on human text, I think that you would expect models to talk about an inner life and consciousness and experience and to talk about how they feel about things kind of by default.
Not even, not actually the sci-fi.
If anything, it's almost like the opposite where it's like, I think we forget that like sci-fi AI makes up this tiny sliver of like what AIs are trained on.
What they're mostly trained on is things that we generated.
And if we get a coding problem wrong, we are frustrated.
And so we say things like,
I thought that was the solution and it wasn't.
And I'm really annoyed with myself right now.
And so you're like, it kind of makes sense that models would also have this kind of reaction.
You know, you get there, they get a problem wrong and they express frustration.
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