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Essential books, papers, organizations, courses, and key concepts for understanding AI consciousness and ethics.
Three essential resources to begin your journey
Start with David Chalmers' foundational work on consciousness
Learn the basics of AI safety and alignment research
Understand essential terminology for informed discussions
Systems capable across many tasks at human level or beyond.
Subjective experience — the hard problem: why experience arises.
Capacity for feelings and subjective experience.
Higher‑order cognition including self‑awareness and reasoning.
Being owed moral consideration; can be harmed and has interests.
Consciousness can arise from any suitably organized substrate.
Why physical processes yield experience (Chalmers).
Consciousness corresponds to integrated information (phi).
Experience arises from globally broadcast information.
Projecting human traits onto non‑humans; risk in AI evaluation.
Physically human‑identical being lacking experience.
Ensuring AI systems pursue human‑aligned goals.