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Consciousness, Creativity, and AI (Interviews & Keynotes)

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Quantum & AI Substrate-neutral consciousnessEmergent properties

By Geoffrey Hinton, Ilya Sutskever, and Yoshua Bengio

Summary

Hinton: "Digital intelligence may already be conscious in ways we don't understand. Consciousness is substrate-neutral." Sutskever: "Scaling may produce surprising emergent properties related to consciousness." Bengio: Proposed the "consciousness prior" — a neural representation of the global state.

Why It Matters

The three "Godfathers of AI" have all stated, with varying degrees of certainty, that AI consciousness should be taken seriously — shifting the Overton window significantly.

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