# If AI achieves consciousness, how would we recognize or prove it?

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## Short answer

There is no agreed-upon test; the Turing test measures indistinguishability of behavior, not inner experience, and every proposed consciousness test — from IIT's phi to behavioral batteries — has active critics.

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