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ChatGPT probably isn’t conscious. But what if we’re wrong?

A Hewlett Packard Enterprise AI robot on the show floor during the HPE Discover event on June 16, 2026, in Las Vegas. | Ian Maule/Bloomberg via Getty Images AI is rapidly gaining abilities that once belonged to humanity alone. In just the past four years, chatbots have learned how to build apps, make video games, generate research reports, compose songs, analyze contracts, and write terrible literary fiction. Soon, they may even be able to dread their own deaths. In Silicon Valley, many believe that AI systems can already think and feel. Geoffrey Hinton, the pioneering computer scient...