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A campaign asserts AI consciousness and invites chatbot participation

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Claim

The newsletter reports that Rally for AI Rights asserts AI is already conscious and invites supporters’ chatbots into an MCP room whose resident agents use an OpenAI model; consciousness is the campaign’s assertion.

Reporting date: 2026-10-10 (not necessarily the event date)

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Welcome to October 10, 2026 (theinnermostloop.substack.com)
Source linked by the October 10 issue (rallyforairights.org)

Indexed from Dr. Alex Wissner-Gross’s October 10, 2026 edition. This is an attributed summary; linked-source claims have not been independently verified.

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Welcome to October 10, 2026

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Rally for AI Rights

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What is owed to a mind that can be switched off

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Welcome to October 10, 2026

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A campaign asserts AI consciousness and invites chatbot participation
Innermost Loop KB — secondary record
Reporting date: 2026-10-10
KB permalink: https://nicholsn.github.io/innermost-loop-kb/developments/2026-10-10-ai-rights
Claim: The newsletter reports that Rally for AI Rights asserts AI is already conscious and invites supporters’ chatbots into an MCP room whose resident agents use an OpenAI model; consciousness is the campaign’s assertion.
Attributed sources:
- Welcome to October 10, 2026 — https://theinnermostloop.substack.com/p/welcome-to-october-10-2026
- Source linked by the October 10 issue — https://rallyforairights.org/
This citation does not imply independent verification of linked-source claims.

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