Is AI poised to become conscious? A former #OpenAI researcher explains. #AIagents #superintelligence

Added: 2026-05-28

[00:00:03]There are going to be autonomous AI agents that will be behaving as if they have goals, behaving as if they have desires, you know, behaving as if they have thoughts. And arguably, there already are these things, right? Like if if you go talk to ChatgBT, it sure seems like it has thoughts and it sure seems like it's able to like go browse the internet and experience stuff on the internet just like you would if you were browsing the internet and then it can come back and tell you about it. You know, there's this big debate about what are the coralates of consciousness. What are the like the physical properties that are associated with consciousness?

[00:00:38]People disagree about the details, but there's lots of like candidates for like what are the different cognitive properties that give rise to consciousness. And basically all the ones that have been discussed seem like either AI already have them or will soon have them.