Identifying indicators of consciousness in AI systems

Patrick Butlin, Robert Long, Tim Bayne, Yoshua Bengio, Jonathan Birch, David Chalmers, Axel Constant, George Deane, Eric Elmoznino, Stephen M. Fleming, Xu Ji, Ryota Kanai, Colin Klein, Grace Lindsay, Matthias Michel, Liad Mudrik, Megan A.K. Peters, Eric Schwitzgebel, Jonathan Simon, Rufin VanRullen

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DOI
10.1016/j.tics.2025.10.011
Published
2026-06
Container
Trends in Cognitive Sciences
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Elsevier BV
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@article{allodium:10.1016/j.tics.2025.10.011,
  title = {Identifying indicators of consciousness in AI systems},
  author = {Patrick Butlin and Robert Long and Tim Bayne and Yoshua Bengio and Jonathan Birch and David Chalmers and Axel Constant and George Deane and Eric Elmoznino and Stephen M. Fleming and Xu Ji and Ryota Kanai and Colin Klein and Grace Lindsay and Matthias Michel and Liad Mudrik and Megan A.K. Peters and Eric Schwitzgebel and Jonathan Simon and Rufin VanRullen},
  year = {2026},
  journal = {Trends in Cognitive Sciences},
  doi = {10.1016/j.tics.2025.10.011},
  url = {https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tics.2025.10.011}
}

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TY  - JOUR
TI  - Identifying indicators of consciousness in AI systems
AU  - Patrick Butlin
AU  - Robert Long
AU  - Tim Bayne
AU  - Yoshua Bengio
AU  - Jonathan Birch
AU  - David Chalmers
AU  - Axel Constant
AU  - George Deane
AU  - Eric Elmoznino
AU  - Stephen M. Fleming
AU  - Xu Ji
AU  - Ryota Kanai
AU  - Colin Klein
AU  - Grace Lindsay
AU  - Matthias Michel
AU  - Liad Mudrik
AU  - Megan A.K. Peters
AU  - Eric Schwitzgebel
AU  - Jonathan Simon
AU  - Rufin VanRullen
PY  - 2026
JO  - Trends in Cognitive Sciences
DO  - 10.1016/j.tics.2025.10.011
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tics.2025.10.011
ER  - 

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Butlin, P., Long, R., Bayne, T., Bengio, Y., Birch, J., Chalmers, D., Constant, A., Deane, G., Elmoznino, E., Fleming, S. M., Ji, X., Kanai, R., Klein, C., Lindsay, G., Michel, M., Mudrik, L., Peters, M. A., Schwitzgebel, E., Simon, J., & VanRullen, R. (2026). Identifying indicators of consciousness in AI systems. Trends in Cognitive Sciences. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tics.2025.10.011

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