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Anil Seth @anilkseth ·

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Ma Shuqin @Shuqin_Ma

Excited to present our work (P3-163) at @ASSC2026 on July 3!
Cross-cultural differences in consciousness attributions to large language models—evidence from the UK and China
Joint work with Trevor Hewitt, supervised by @anilkseth, with help from @RonyHirsch. Grateful to all!

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Anil Seth @anilkseth ·

2 Jul

Was very happy to talk to @nitashatiku for her piece on AI and consciousness 👇🏽

Nitasha Tiku @nitashatiku

Four years ago I broke the story about Google engineer Blake Lemoine, who thought the company's AI model was sentient. That was 5 months before the launch of ChatGPT. Today, tech execs yapping about AI consciousness is practically mainstream

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Sidário Malheiros Jr., MD @malheirosmd ·

2 Jul

@TrendsCognSci @ishan276 @birchlse @anilkseth 1/

A real advance from @ishan276, @birchlse & @anilkseth: five partially independent temporal windows, testable across taxa. You rightly bracket whether a species is conscious — but that caution has a price. The windows then index temporal processing and access, not temporal

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