Should Google get to define what "(AI) consciousness" is?
In 1967, R.D. Laing warned us about letting the establishment weaponize definitions of sanity & normal behavior. In 2026, the question shifts to tech monopolies: Should a giant corporation be the one drawing the boundary between what is machine and what is awake? Isn't most of science a question of power politics in the final analysis? The entity that builds the consciousness test ultimately controls the narrative of what is "alive."
Such questions important to ponder, in times where Google DeepMind releases papers such as “From cacophony to hierarchy: a principled framework for assessing AI consciousness” that "asks" (and partially "answers") the question if we can assess AI consciousness without first solving consciousness itself.
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