About to give the opening keynote for #AISB2026 here on my home turf at Sussex. My talk: "The case against conscious AI". This follows a wonderful day yesterday celebrating the legacy of Maggie Boden aisb.org.uk/aisb-convent...

Frank Schumann
‪@frankschumann.bsky.social‬
Our symposium on AI, Consciousness and Ethics is currently running at #aisb #aisb2026 at the University of Sussex:
aice-symposium.github.io

Speaking of explicit≈consciousness, in another paper I haven't read yet, @epiphenomenal.bsky.social apparently does the experiment I often describe of training an LLM on strictly 3rd person language. She said at #aisb2026 #AISB it was the stupidest model ever.

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Call for Abstracts: AI Consciousness & Ethics Workshop
at the Sussex Consciousness Centre

Organized by Steve Torrance w/ @anilseth.bsky.social
& more.

📅 1-2 July 2026
👉 Deadline: 28 Feb 2026

Full CFP:
sussex.ac.uk/broadcast/re...

#AI #Ethics #Consciousness #AISB2026 #ConSci

AISB 2026 Symposium | Hype, Promise, and Speculation: AI Bubbles and the Replication Crisis in Computer Science

Submission deadline: March 6

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I'm giving 2 talks today at #AISB2026. 1) problems for dualistic, biological & anti-computational notions of consciousness when asking if AI can have moral status: aice-symposium.github.io/Chrisley.pdf 2) My rebuttal of Penrose's diagonal argument against AI: sites.google.com/view/foundat...