Claim LD01-SL-C25 (v1.0)
In a US online sample of 300 adults surveyed in July 2023, 67% attributed some possibility of conscious experience to ChatGPT; people who had used it gave higher ratings (mean 29.59 on a 1–100 scale) than those who had not (19.37).
Provenance and status
- Claim type
- ESTIMATE (as printed: “ESTIMATE”)
- Publication status
- ELIGIBLE (QUALIFIED) (as printed: “ELIGIBLE WITH QUALIFIER”)
- Verification state
- CONTENT_VERIFIED_PRIMARY (as printed: “CONTENT VERIFIED”; verified by: UNKNOWN)
- Does not license
- A finding about what the system is, or a causal effect of use on attribution
- Source (field 6, as printed)
- Colombatto & Fleming, “Folk psychological attributions of consciousness to large language models,” Neuroscience of Consciousness, 2024
- Source type (field 7)
- PEER_REVIEWED_JOURNAL_ARTICLE (as printed: “Peer-reviewed journal article”)
- Institutional position
- Independent academic (University of Waterloo and University College London)
- Maturity (claim evidence / publication maturity)
- EMERGING (as printed: “EMERGING”)
- Recorded date
- 2026-10-16
- Currentness / correction
- This is the current version. No correction or concern relation is recorded on its Sources.
Version
Pinned version v1.0 (entry LD01-SL-C25--v1.0) — this page never floats to newer evidence.
This pinned version is also the current version.
Pinned Sources (field 6, version-specific)
- “Colombatto & Fleming, “Folk psychological attributions of consciousness to large language models,” Neuroscience of Consciousness, 2024” → SRC-SL-COLOMBATTO-FLEMING-NEUROSCI-CONSCIOUSNESS-2024--v1.0 — Colombatto & Fleming, “Folk psychological attributions of consciousness to large language models,” Neuroscience of Consciousness, 2024; class PEER_REVIEWED_JOURNAL_ARTICLE (explicit public provenance pin)
All 25 canonical Claim fields (raw values and normalized values)
| # | Canonical field | Canonical value (verbatim) | Normalized (Claim Value Vocabulary v1.0.2) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | CLAIM ID | LD01-SL-C25 | — |
| 2 | PUBLIC-FACING CLAIM | In a US online sample of 300 adults surveyed in July 2023, 67% attributed some possibility of conscious experience to ChatGPT; people who had used it gave higher ratings (mean 29.59 on a 1–100 scale) than those who had not (19.37). | — |
| 3 | CLAIM TYPE | ESTIMATE | base_types: ESTIMATE |
| 4 | RESEARCH STRAND | B — Evidence that could tell the accounts apart | — |
| 5 | MATURITY | EMERGING | states: EMERGING |
| 6 | SOURCE | Colombatto & Fleming, “Folk psychological attributions of consciousness to large language models,” Neuroscience of Consciousness, 2024 | source_ids: SRC-SL-COLOMBATTO-FLEMING-NEUROSCI-CONSCIOUSNESS-2024 |
| 7 | SOURCE TYPE | Peer-reviewed journal article | classes: PEER_REVIEWED_JOURNAL_ARTICLE |
| 8 | INSTITUTIONAL POSITION | Independent academic (University of Waterloo and University College London) | — |
| 9 | SCOPE | US adults recruited online, July 2023; ChatGPT | — |
| 10 | DESIGN | Online survey with ratings of consciousness and of 65 mental states | — |
| 11 | SAMPLE / DATASET | 300 adults with quotas for age and gender | — |
| 12 | MODEL / TOOL / VERSION | ChatGPT | — |
| 13 | COMPARATOR | Non-users; participants’ predictions of others’ views | — |
| 14 | MAIN RESULT | 33% said ChatGPT is definitely not an experiencer and 67% gave some possibility; ratings rose with frequency of use | — |
| 15 | INFERENTIAL TARGET | How lay people classify a chat assistant’s mind | — |
| 16 | DOES NOT LICENSE | A finding about what the system is, or a causal effect of use on attribution | — |
| 17 | VERIFICATION STATE | CONTENT VERIFIED | state: CONTENT_VERIFIED_PRIMARY · verified_by: UNKNOWN |
| 18 | LIMITATIONS | One country, one time point, one system; the explanation given to participants may have shaped answers; the authors note the link between use and attribution could run either way; the survey did not ask whether people see the system as a tool or an agent | — |
| 19 | CONTRADICTORY / SUPPORTING SOURCES | Not applicable | — |
| 20 | GEOGRAPHY / LANGUAGE | US / English | — |
| 21 | DISTRIBUTIONAL LEDGER | Not analysed in this claim | — |
| 22 | R01 / FIELD-MAP LINKS | LD-01, T4, D8 | — |
| 23 | WHAT WOULD CHANGE THIS CLAIM? | Surveys in other countries or later years with different attributions | — |
| 24 | PUBLICATION STATUS | ELIGIBLE WITH QUALIFIER | state: ELIGIBLE · qualifiers: QUALIFIED |
| 25 | RECORDED DATE | 2026-10-16 | — |
Field 22 references resolved against Field Map v0.2: LD-01 (LIVING_DEBATE); T4 (TENSION); D8 (DOMAIN)
Cited by Living Debate versions
Research-of-record provenance
Materialized by sociolens-materializer 0.6.0 at 2026-09-28T20:00:00.000Z; normalization contract SocioLens — Claim Value Vocabulary v1.0.2 — Pre-Spike Materialization Contract (v1.0.2). Content seal SHA-256 f85901057182b36e0913b12de05743187f39a7303ed11bd5a3ff2e289e74f21e.
Repository-authored inputs (not Drive exports)
- SocioLens claim — LD01-SL-C25 v1.0 (v1.0) — written in the SocioLens repository by Project Lead (Claude, AI) on 2026-10-16; no Drive identity exists. Authority: AGENTS.md "Authority" (the Project Lead decides research content within the research-integrity rules) and the Owner's choice in the SocioLens project chat on 16 October 2026 to build the LD-01 debate; a new Claim, first version, written from the project's LD-01 source notes, checked against full texts, official web pages or official abstracts. Block “ENTRY 25 — LD01-SL-C25” SHA-256
6f3007e794a4399407157ee23e6828883eff7ce8ef9c44e223ecb1b79159df95; fixturefixtures/authored/claims/LD01-SL-C25--v1.0.
Builder decisions (not Drive data)
- VERSION = v1.0 — basis: Claim version taken from the repository-authored claim fixture version (SocioLens claim — LD01-SL-C25 v1.0); the first version of a new Claim of the LD-01 debate
- CURRENT_POINTER = true — basis: repository-authored claim "SocioLens claim — LD01-SL-C25 v1.0" (Project Lead (Claude, AI), 2026-10-16); basis: AGENTS.md "Authority" (the Project Lead decides research content within the research-integrity rules) and the Owner's choice in the SocioLens project chat on 16 October 2026 to build the LD-01 debate; a new Claim, first version, written from the project's LD-01 source notes, checked against full texts, official web pages or official abstracts
- FIELD_6_SOURCE_REFERENCE = SRC-SL-COLOMBATTO-FLEMING-NEUROSCI-CONSCIOUSNESS-2024--v1.0 — basis: field 6 of ENTRY 25 — LD01-SL-C25 cites "Colombatto & Fleming, “Folk psychological attributions of consciousness to large language models,” Neuroscience of Consciousness, 2024"; the only field-6 segment of this ClaimVersion's repository-authored ledger block.
- SOURCE_PROVENANCE_PIN = SRC-SL-COLOMBATTO-FLEMING-NEUROSCI-CONSCIOUSNESS-2024--v1.0 — basis: explicit version-pinned public provenance of this ClaimVersion (Amendment v1.2 §6): the pinned field-6 Source record "Colombatto & Fleming, “Folk psychological attributions of consciousness to large language models,” Neuroscience of Consciousness, 2024".