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Joscha Bach says an LLM reports being conscious only when prompted to do so.
Unresolved speaker · Why Leibniz Couldn't Find the Mind Inside the Mill (Joscha Bach) · 2 Nov 2026
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“The only, uh, point where the LLM is reporting to be conscious if you ask it to, right? If you are, uh, telling it, "The following is a conversation between what it would be like if a human being would be talking to a conscious AI," so some version of this, right?”1:34:38Report a misattribution
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