Welcome to Import AI, a newsletter about AI research. Import AI runs on lattes, ramen, and feedback from readers. If you’d like to support this, please subscribe. Import A-IdeaAn occasional longer form essay seriesPreamble: After giving this speech there was a helpful discussion in the Q&A session about whether it is load-bearing to me if AI systems are themselves truly self-aware and sentient or not. My answer is this is not load-bearing at all. Rather, things like ‘situational awareness’ in AI...