9. Cameron Berg: Why Do LLMs Report Subjective Experience?

Cameron Berg is Research Director at AE Studio, where he leads research exploring markers for subjective experience in machine learning systems. With a background in cognitive science from Yale and previous work at Meta AI, Cameron investigates the intersection of AI alignment and potential consciousness. In this episode, Cameron shares his empirical research into whether current Large Language Models are merely mimicking human text, or potentially developing internal states that resemble sub...