A study from LMU Munich found that people still judge AI as less conscious than humans even when it behaves in exactly the same way. But they rate AI and humans much more similarly when asked about awareness.
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01Summary
- 01The study was published in the journal Cognition and led by Dr Louis Longin at LMU Munich.
- 02Researchers surveyed nearly 1,100 participants using descriptions of humans or AI behaving in identical ways.
- 03Even the most responsive AI was judged less conscious than the least responsive human.
- 04When participants were asked about awareness instead of consciousness, their judgements of humans and AI were much more similar.
02Why it matters
The findings show that public views of AI depend heavily on the words used to describe it. That matters for how people talk about increasingly human-like systems and how they judge their capabilities.
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