AI and Consciousness: Shifting Focus Towards Tractable Questions

ArXi:2605.06965v1 Announce Type: cross As language-based AI systems become anthropomorphic, the question of whether they can have subjective experience is increasingly pressing. I focus here on the tractability of research questions in the space of AI consciousness. I argue that the fundamental problem of whether AI systems can be conscious is currently intractable in its direct form, given the absence of a universally accepted scientific theory of consciousness, as well as the historical open-endedness of the philosophical mind-body problem.