The 4 types of AI consciousness/feeling

Here I'm trying to propose a framework for people to better think about what LLMs might subjectively experience, which tends to get discussed like it's a binary thing, when really there's a whole spectrum of possibilities. These were the 4 categories that seemed most natural to me. AI consciousness keeps getting discussed like it’s a binary thing, when it’s anything but. Anil Seth is a public intellectual with as much success as one can obtain without being a household name: He’s written a bestseller ( Being You: A New Science of Consciousness ), he’s given TED talks, he’s been in documentaries (including the comedic Cunk on Life ), and many interviews—with a presence aided by his careful demeanor and “cool teacher” vibe, with the credentials to back it up as a professor of Cognitive and Computational Neuroscience. So when he says AI aren’t conscious, people listen. When he says AI will never be conscious , people listen. One common refrain among his interviews is the idea that humans too easily engage in anthropomorphization of AI. For instance, I know folk who started thinking of LLMs as more conscious and humanlike after learning about the self-sacrificing behaviors displayed du