In January 2026, a team of researchers including Derek Shiller, Laura Duffy, Arvo Muñoz Morán, Adrià Moret, Chris Percy, and Hayley Clatterbuck published the initial results of the Digital Consciousness Model, a Bayesian framework for estimating the probability that AI...
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