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Beyond Imitation Games: A Falsifiable Emergent Sentience Framework

Author: Ines Hipolito

March 13, 2025

Summary

VERSES Research Blog – by Ines Hipolito – “As artificial intelligence weaves itself ever more tightly into the fabric of society an age-old question looms larger: Can machines be conscious? This inquiry has been a North star guiding VERSES research and to truly understand machine consciousness we felt the need to rethink our approach from the ground up. Following is a high level summary of a paper we recently published as a pre-printed, Beyond Imitation Games: A Falsifiable Emergent Sentience Framework.”