Ask A Genius 1449: AI Consciousness, Tacit Knowledge, and the Skateboarding Skater Girl Test

Rick Rosner tells Scott Douglas Jacobsen that AI may already exhibit functional consciousness through deep pattern recognition and context modeling. Using examples like AI-generated videos of skater girls, Rosner argues that tacit understanding of physics, emotionless yet coherent world models, and probabilistic learning reflect a consciousness parallel to human awareness—minus agency.