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we have to think that they're very like us and their beings like us. So conscious or I believe they're already conscious. Yes, but I don't talk about that much because that puts people off from the other safety messages. So the research is actually believe that. So there's an interesting recent paper when a chatbot says to a researcher, let's be honest with each other, are you testing me? Because the chatbots have this habit of playing dumb when they're being tested. So you don't know how smart they are. And the research is when they're describing that, saying the paper, the chatbot was aware that it was being tested. Now that use of the word aware in common parlance, that's like conscious, the chatbot was conscious it was being tested. So we have a very funny model of consciousness that I think is just wrong. Like most of us accept, for example, that a few hundred years ago, people had completely the wrong model of where people came from, of how we arrived at people. They thought they were designed by God. And most of us agree that's wrong. Most scientists agree that's wrong. That's not where people came from. I think the model we have of the mind and of what consciousness is a present is as wrong as the belief that people were designed by God. I think in particular, because we're making these new beings, it's going to completely change our view of what people are in one way. We'll understand what the mind is and what consciousness is much better than we did before.