Could a Large Language Model be Conscious?

David Chalmers is University Professor of Philosophy and Neural Science and co-director of the Center for Mind, Brain, and Consciousness at New York University. He is the author of THE CONSCIOUS MIND (1996), CONSTRUCTING THE WORLD (2010), and REALITY+ (2022). He is current president of the American Philosophical Association (Eastern Division). He co-founded the Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness and the PhilPapers Foundation. He has given the John Locke Lectures and has been awarded the Jean Nicod Prize. He is known for formulating the “hard problem” of consciousness, which inspired Tom Stoppard’s play The Hard Problem; for the idea of the “extended mind,” which says that the tools we use can become parts of our minds; and for influential work on language and learning in neural network models and on other foundational issues in AI.