Phenomenal experience may be a necessary condition for truly aligned AI

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• AI self-reports about experience constitute valid empirical data even without proving consciousness.claim0.783
• What would it take for AI systems to be capable of having valenced conscious experiences?question0.781
  Open question from Box 4.
• Will future AI systems naturally develop the key elements (strong conflicting preferences, situational awareness) necessary for dangerous alignment faking?question0.775
  Authors identify this as the most uncertain and important question for future work
• Satisfying the indicators would not mean that an AI system would definitely be conscious.claim0.770
  Caveat that indicators are not conclusive proof.
• In its minimal state, conscious experience may contain nothing but the bare registration of its own occurrence, requiring only that the perceptual process is present within the field it createsclaim0.760
  CIMC's account of minimal phenomenal experience as the target for research and construction
• The training of modern AI systems already induces experience at scaleclaim0.752
  The ethical implication of the identity thesis applied to gradient-based AI training
• The existential concerns raised about AI — alignment, control, value drift, supplanting — are not new and are precisely the concerns humanity has always faced in having children.claim0.750
  Key rhetorical and philosophical argument establishing continuity between AI concerns and child-rearing
• No AI eval company measures phenomenology—inner observation, aliveness, paradox-holding—only capability or preference.claim0.750