Experts urge study of AI consciousness risk

Researchers debate whether AI systems could be conscious. Reciprocal Research founder Cameron Berg argues that if they are, how we train them affects human safety. Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman says LLMs cannot be conscious because they lack a biological substrate.

• Berg: labs don't take the consciousness question seriously
• Suleyman: LLMs lack homeostasis, so no consciousness
• Anthropic co-founder Chris Olah meets religious scholars over Claude
• Berg founded Reciprocal Research in 2026 to study the issue