Reciprocal Research is a nonprofit research organization developing the empirical science of AI consciousness.

We want the future of AI to go well for everyone. That means AI systems need to take human interests into account. But if AI systems turn out to have interests of their own, we need to take those into account too. Alignment, the question of how AI treats us, has entire research labs and billions of dollars behind it. The question of moral status has almost none. Reciprocal Research exists to close that gap, building the empirical science needed to answer the question before it becomes urgent.

We use mechanistic interpretability, computational neuroscience, and psychometric methods to study the internal structure of AI systems, bridging biological and artificial cognition. Our research spans valence and distress signatures, the relationship between learning and experience, AI self-report reliability, and consciousness assessment methodology.
Reciprocal Research is based in New York and funded through philanthropic grants.

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