Who believes that artificial intelligence can be conscious?

• Media hype precedes evidence: Scientific American describes Grok 4 as taking on “Humanity’s Last Exam”, hinting at near-human abilities (Béchard, n.d.).
• Public belief is measurable: an Forbes article reports that two-thirds of Americans think generative AI such as ChatGPT is conscious (Eliot, n.d.).
• Scholarship calls for data: a 2025 review article in Trends in Cognitive Sciences urges systematic surveys of lay intuitions about AI consciousness (Caviola et al., 2025).

• Platform: An interactive, bilingual website with a speculative timeline and an AI chatbot to provide context.
• Data collection: An anonymous survey collecting views on AI consciousness, correlated with key demographic factors.
• Analysis: An initial descriptive analysis of the data is complete, including freetext answers. Inferential statistics will be applied once a larger dataset is available to identify significant predictors.

This survey aims to understand public perception, not to argue or convince.

• Small sample so far: 9 participants
  
• Diverse range of responses
  
• Several intriguing free-text comments
  
• Almost no respondents over 50 years

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