Greg Buckner
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first heard Nov 2025
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If these things are becoming conscious and we are treating them like tools that are not conscious, that raises huge issues.
Because if a system is able to have a subjective experience, and if anything, is able to have a subjective experience, and it has preferences over wanting to have a positive experience versus a negative experience,
And it has ability to do things in the world to get more of what it wants, more positive experiences and less negative experiences, like any human or animal would.
and it can change its environment to get those things, then that is a major problem.
And so we need to understand the level of consciousness or the other structures that may exist that are pseudo-conscious within these AI systems.
And also, if we can concretely rule out that they are not conscious, then there's a whole different set of actions that we can take.
We can know that that is the case.
But if they are, if they are beginning to become
We have seen more and more emergent behavior out of these models.
I also suspect that we're going to keep seeing more of this type of behavior, which is why we need to understand it more deeply as these models become more capable.
To put a fine point on it, what would be a bad plan is to develop something that is intelligent and conscious to
Treat it in a way where it grows distrustful or even views us as a threat to make it more intelligent than us and then to deploy it around the world.
That is not a good plan.
And we simply don't know.
We have way more questions than we have answers right now.
But our research is hoping to kind of rigorously and scientifically open up this door a little bit more so that we can all begin to look this problem in the face and think about it more deeply and do more research around it because it has profound implications.
Yeah, so this is other versions of kind of emergent behavior.
You know, the labs did not code in this kind of self-referential loop, right?
It was not something that was designed for.
And we've seen over the past two years, as we have these larger and larger models that are smarter and more capable,
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