# Can artificial systems be conscious?

- kind: problem
- status: open
- year: 1950

**Statement.** Could a trained model have experiences, and how would anyone tell?

Once a question for thought experiments, it now bears on how models are built and treated. Indicator-based assessments derived from neuroscience theories have been proposed, and every such theory is contested.

## Sources

- [Wikipedia: Artificial consciousness](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_consciousness)

[Consciousness](/wiki/Space:consciousness.md) · [Mind](/wiki/Continent:mind.md)

## Relations to this page

- related to [hard-problem](/wiki/Problem:hard-problem.md) — The original curation links this problem to Can artificial systems be conscious?; the argument for the link has not been written yet.

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