[4I5-OS-17b] OS-17

4:30 PM - 4:45 PM JST(7:30 AM - 7:45 AM UTC)

[4I5-OS-17b-05] AI and Human Consciousness

〇Oki Hasegawa^2,4,5, Kaori Asama^3,4, Shinnosuke Mizuno^3,4, Shosuke Nishimoto^3,4,5,6, Takuya Higuchi^1,4 (1. Kyoto University, 2. Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, 3. The University of Tokyo, 4. The Nippon Foundation HUMAI Program, 5. Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, 6. AI Alignment Network)

Keywords:

consciousness,artificial intelligence,subjectivity

With the rapid development of artificial intelligence that exhibits increasingly human-like behavior, the question of whether AI can possess consciousness comparable to that of humans has attracted widespread attention. However, in order to address this question, it is first necessary to return to a more fundamental problem: what consciousness itself is. Although consciousness has long been a central topic of philosophical inquiry, no unified understanding has yet been achieved even in contemporary scholarship. This paper examines key issues surrounding consciousness from multiple perspectives, including linguistics, philology, cognitive science, neuroscience, and engineering. By comparing these perspectives with information processing in machines, it aims to elucidate the diverse aspects of the concept of consciousness. Through this interdisciplinary analysis, the paper seeks to offer insights into how consciousness should be conceptualized in research on artificial intelligence.