Operational Sentience
A provisional framework for studying longitudinal organisation in persistent AI systems and its possible relevance to subjective experience, without treating behaviour as proof of experience.
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Working frameworks and methods for Project Aria's planned longitudinal study of continuity, memory, identity, agency and precautionary AI welfare. Research results will be added as the study progresses.
These publications describe the research questions and methods we are prepared to examine publicly. Internal AERIE engineering and operational material remains separate.
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