📣📣New preprint AI consciousness has never been more timely or polarized. Some call LLMs stochastic parrots🦜 Others warn about model welfare and existential risks ⚠️ In an interdisciplinary collaboration with @GoldsteinYAriel and @Liad_Mudrik, led by my student @noam_steinmetz, we use interpretability tools to test a key consciousness indicator from neuroscientific theories. Our results show indications of belief-guided agency and meta-cognitive capacity in LLMs 🧵1/