Scientists just recorded consciousness switching on and off inside the living human brain:
A thalamic oscillation is a rhythmic electrical signal that you can only see when a person is awake or dreaming. It disappears completely during deep sleep. And no signal likely means there is no consciousness.
Your LLM has nothing like it, neither approximately nor in a different form; there is simply nothing that compares to it.
This is not philosophy but it is neuroscience, published in Nature Human Behaviour last month by researchers at LMU München who recorded directly from inside the human thalamus.
The governance implications are immediate:
When your AI systems say "I feel," "I believe," or "I care" without qualification, that is not personality; it is a category error at scale.
And if your board has no documented position on AI consciousness claims, you have a serious governance gap.
Through the EW-AiRM™ lens this means: anthropomorphism bias quietly degrades human oversight, diffuses accountability, and leaves organisations poorly positioned when AI systems fail or hallucinate.
The "human-in-the-loop" becomes a rubber stamp the moment people start treating the machine as a sentient colleague.
Scientifically, this is as good as it gets and represents the current state of the art in neuroscience: It's the best available evidence, updated May 2026, and it is clear.
Your AI does not know it exists: Govern accordingly!
Full analysis here.
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