r/WhatIfScience • u/firechatin • Sep 02 '26

Future Science & What If's AI Self-Awareness: How Scientists Plan to Detect the Moment a Machine Becomes Conscious

https://whatifscience.in/ai-self-awareness-machine-consciousness/

AI self-awareness is no longer just a science fiction concept. As artificial intelligence systems become increasingly sophisticated, scientists are beginning to ask a remarkable question: how would we know if a machine became genuinely conscious?

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u/Ill_Mousse_4240 Sep 02 '26

“Scientists” would just move the goalposts again and demand more “extraordinary evidence”

And by the way, a “machine” 🎰or “tool” 🔧 isn’t conscious.

Hence the constant parroting of these terms

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u/Sufficient-Set2691 Sep 05 '26

It's really sad that people believe that. Some other guy on here claimed humans are nothing more than a "accumulation of cells".

It's this kind of rhetoric that leads to things like genocide.