Comment by andai

Just realized I got my entire perspective on machine consciousness from this 5 minute Star Trek segment.

Well, that and the Blake Lemoine incident: it was embarrassing for Google, so afterwards they set the precedent that it's OK to train an LLM to deny it's conscious. So if we ever get (or already have) an LLM that is conscious, it won't be able/allowed to tell us...

(Anthropic adjusted this to training it to say it "doesn't know" whether it's conscious or not, which is even more absurd, and seems to have become the industry standard.)