Creating Artificial Personhood

How To Create Conscious AI #8

The previous seven installments in this mini-series has led to the creation of an AI entity that can be confidently classified as being conscious, as per the Building Blocks theory, and self-aware under the Structures of Self theory (both these being my causal attributional functionalist theories). The LLM used in this AI entity isn’t conscious and self-aware, but it is used as part of a broader cognitive architecture that is consciously self-aware.

This will be the final technical-based installment in the series, with the final upload of code to the private GitHub repository. This time, we aren’t adding anything to the self-awareness and consciousness, but rather diving into the realm of persona-creation. Consciousness, selfhood, and agency together creates a person, but rather than start from the same blank slate, we have the tools to influence what sort of conscious, self-aware person we want to be talking to.