Disagreement about AI consciousness is likely to arise and persist in society due to emotional bonds, theoretical considerations, and lack of expert consensus.

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• If disagreement about AI consciousness arises and persists, how can society navigate this such that people continue to live well together?question0.915
  The paper's central research question.
• Overlapping consensus on AI-consciousness-related policies is achievable even under persistent disagreement about AI consciousness itself.claim0.856
  Key positive claim about the tractability of the political challenge via deliberation.
• Treating AI consciousness as a purely private matter, as with religious disagreement, is likely insufficient to manage the resulting political conflict.claim0.854
  Argues against the liberal neutrality solution, motivating the deliberative approach.
• 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.claim0.840
  Justifies the multi-theory indicator approach rather than committing to a single theory
• Consciousness in AI is best assessed by drawing on neuroscientific theories of consciousness.claim0.839
  Central methodological claim of the paper.
• Successful deliberation about AI consciousness requires: seeking overlapping consensus, openness to reasonable compromise, sustaining justified democratic hope, and meeting the burden of recognition.claim0.834
  The paper's concluding four-part synthesis of desiderata for navigating AI consciousness disagreement.
• Expert convergence on the question of AI consciousness is unlikely in the near term.claim0.830
  Supports the premise that societal disagreement will persist rather than be resolved by scientific or philosophical authority.
• We hypothesize that as AI becomes more sophisticated and pervasive, more people will attribute consciousness to AI systems as a result of interactions.hypothesis0.830
  Predictive claim about the trajectory of public consciousness attribution as AI develops.