Acknowledgment of possible error about AI consciousness, combined with recognition of error costs, can motivate overlapping consensus on precautionary policies.

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• Overlapping consensus on AI-consciousness-related policies is achievable even under persistent disagreement about AI consciousness itself.claim0.863
  Key positive claim about the tractability of the political challenge via deliberation.
• Successful deliberation about AI consciousness requires: seeking overlapping consensus, openness to reasonable compromise, sustaining justified democratic hope, and meeting the burden of recognition.claim0.826
  The paper's concluding four-part synthesis of desiderata for navigating AI consciousness disagreement.
• Disagreement about AI consciousness is likely to arise and persist in society due to emotional bonds, theoretical considerations, and lack of expert consensus.claim0.821
  Central empirical-sociological claim motivating the paper's inquiry.
• Consciousness in AI is best assessed by drawing on neuroscientific theories of consciousness.claim0.818
  Central methodological claim of the paper.
• Expert convergence on the question of AI consciousness is unlikely in the near term.claim0.811
  Supports the premise that societal disagreement will persist rather than be resolved by scientific or philosophical authority.
• Indicators used to assess AI systems for consciousness should focus on theories' central explanatory posits, abstracting away from implementation details that may differ across systems.claim0.810
  First of four guidelines for deriving indicators; prevents over-restriction to human-specific features
• We hypothesize that as AI becomes more sophisticated and pervasive, more people will attribute consciousness to AI systems as a result of interactions.hypothesis0.805
  Predictive claim about the trajectory of public consciousness attribution as AI develops.
• Because no one theory of consciousness is currently dominant, assessments of AI systems should draw on multiple theories and treat their conditions as indicators rather than definitive criteria.claim0.805
  Justifies the multi-theory indicator approach rather than committing to a single theory