# Could a Large Language Model be Conscious **Opening (not a real abstract):** Could a Large Language Model be Conscious? David J. Chalmers [Published in the Boston Review, August 9, 2023 (published version). This is an edited version of a talk given at the conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) on November 28, 2022 (video), with some minor additions and subtractions.] **Authors:** [[Chalmers]]