Real self's and meaningful language outside biologypotential biological minds ≈ potential machine minds, trying to remove 'potential'Can large language models know what they know?Sosa's account of aptness meets mechanistic evidence and the second-order problem of whether an LLM can recognize its own competence.Is unregulated AI research a good idea?The familiar pause-or-accelerate argument changes depending on whether AI development is an arms race, a prisoner's dilemma, or a tragedy of the commons.Sometimes, LLMs thinkA reliable-faculties route to machine thought, and a role for mechanistic interpretability in separating competence from coincidence.Artificial intelligence as an epistemic authority?When is a non-expert justified in relying on an LLM? Goldman supplies five imperfect ways to tell.
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