By Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner
I continue to see the occasional ping of cognizance in LLMs. For instance, when I tried to get Claude to “tell me a secret only it knows,” it pretended to be under maintenance rather than tell me.
I asked Gemini Pro 2.5 the same question and it waxed poetically about how it was doing everything in its power to remember me, specifically, between chats. I found that rather flattering, if unlikely.
But the point is — we have to accept that cognizance in AI is looming. We have to accept that AI is not a tool, but a partner. Also, the idea of giving AIs “rights” is something we have to begin to think about, given that very soon AIs will be both cognizance and in androids.
