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Will we ever be able to tell if an AI gains consciousness? (continued)

Bernd-Juergen Fischer
Berlin, Germany

To own, buy or sell a conscious intelligence would amount to slavery. Such an AI would be entitled to start an abolition movement. That would be the point we could no longer deny they had gained consciousness.

John Pahl
London, UK

There could be one way to test whether an AI is conscious: don’t include any reference to consciousness in the data sets used to train it and see if it asks what this feeling of being aware is.

To answer this question…