Robert Long recently completed his PhD in philosophy at New York University, during which he also worked as a Research Fellow at the Future of Humanity Institute. He is working on issues related to possible AI sentience, and recently has been working on a paper about introspection and self-report in large language models.
Research:
What to Think when a Language Model Tells you it's Sentient (Blog post)
AI Language Models Cannot Replace Human Research Participants (co-authored with Jacqueline Harding, William D'Alessandro, and Nicholas Laskowski. Published in AI & Society).
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