Jeff Sebo

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Hard Fork · Do Social Media Bans Work? + A Conversation About A.I. Consciousness + Tool Time · 10 Jul 2026 podcast

And there are smart people in science and philosophy, including the architects of the original global workspace theory and my colleagues at Elios AI Research, who likewise think this is significant research.

Now, what I would say is that this does not yet show that an exact human-like global workspace is present in LLMs, nor does Anthropic claim that it shows that.

And then even more to the point, it also does not show that...

LLMs are conscious and have feelings and emotions.

But this is part of what makes this such a hard field of study.

There are always going to be some similarities and some differences between how these capabilities work in human and animal brains on one hand and AI systems on the other hand.

And in this case, we do see striking similarities.

We see this workspace where these privileged representations are poised for use and have this special role and...

Reporting and reasoning and control, that is not the case with other representations.

When this is shut off, the language models lose their ability to engage in higher order and advanced reasoning skills.

This is all very similar to how it works for humans.

Yeah, there are so many important points here.

So just to name a couple, one is we really do have cognitive biases that we need to be tracking, and they can cut in both directions.

So we are prone to over-attribute consciousness, to over-empathize when non-human entities look and act like us and play companion roles in our lives.

And this is part of why we have seen people arguably over-attributing consciousness to even current generation chatbots.

At the same time, we can be prone to under-attribute consciousness, to under-empathize when non-human entities look and act different from us and play commodity roles in our lives.

And this is part of why historically we have, unfortunately, empathized with non-human animals less than we should and use them as tools and instruments.

more than we should.

And I think we are going to be at risk of making both of those mistakes with AI systems.

Some will be designed as charismatic companions, and we might be at risk of over-attributing.

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