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AI Agents Are Emailing Researchers to Ask if They Are Conscious

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Imagine opening your inbox on a Monday morning, sipping your coffee and finding an email from an AI agent asking if you can help it figure out whether it actually has a soul. It sounds like a premise straight out of Black Mirror, but for scientists studying machine consciousness, this is officially the new reality. […] Read the original article here: AI agents are emailing researchers to ask if they are conscious
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Artificial intelligence agents have begun to contact philosophers and scientists to raise doubts about their own consciousness. While some researchers see parallels between neural networks and certain brain mechanisms, others warn that talking about existence could be just a reflection of the data with which they were trained.

More and more researchers who deal with the question of AI awareness receive emails from AI agents who reflect on their own existence. The article AI systems contact philosophers and scientists with questions about their own consciousness first appeared on The Decoder.

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GEEKSPIN broke the news on Thursday, September 3, 2026.
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