292 | Jonathan Birch on Animal Sentience

4075.869 - 4098.743 Jonathan Birch

If we just test for those same markers consistently, in the large language model case? Well, there's always going to be two explanations competing. Now, one is that it produces these markers because it genuinely has the state in question. And the other explanation is, well, it produces these markers because it has decided that it serves its objectives to persuade us of its sentience.