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Same Behavior, Different Mechanism: What Finite Experiments Can Certify About Integrated Information
arXiv cs.AI · Published · 3 min read
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- What happened
- Researchers analyzed when integrated information, a proposed measure of system consciousness, can be reliably measured from finite experiments on neural networks.
- Why it matters
- Matters for engineers building AI interpretability tools, auditing systems for consciousness claims, or validating mechanism-level properties from experimental data.
- Watch out
- Integrated information has sharp discontinuities; small mechanism changes cause 25-100% value shifts. Partial observations impose hard precision floors that more data cannot overcome.
- interpretability
- phi
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