Hello and welcome to Eye on AI. In this edition…a new pro-AI PAC launches with $100 million in backing…Musk sues Apple and OpenAI over their partnership…Meta cuts a big deal with Google…and AI really is eliminating some entry-level jobs.

Last week, my colleague Bea Nolan wrote about Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman and his growing concerns about what he has called “seemingly-conscious AI.” In a blog post , Suleyman described this as the danger of AI systems that are not in any way conscious, but which are able “to imitate consciousness in such a convincing way that it would be indistinguishable” from claims a person might make about their own consciousness. Suleyman wonders how we will distinguish “seemingly-conscious AI” (which he calls SCAI) from actually conscious AI? And if many

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