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Bourget and Chalmers 2020 survey: ~39% of philosophers accept or lean toward future AI consciousness

Survey result on philosophical attitudes toward AI consciousness.

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Taking AI Welfare Seriously

(2024) · Robert Long · Jeff Sebo · Patrick Butlin · Kathleen Finlinson +6

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Computational functionalism is plausible and well-supported, so it would be a mistake to dismiss near-future AI welfare solely on the basis of high-level arguments against this assumption.
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Defense against biological substrate objections.

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Collective intelligence & distributed cognition
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All minds are composites of parts; individual and collective intelligence unified under substrate-neutral principles.
Substrate neutrality of consciousness
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Philosophical shift toward machine consciousness plausibility, documented by Bourget & Chalmers 2020 and Francken et al. 2022 surveys showing majority philosopher acceptance.

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