Abstract

Unconscious AI encompasses systems that perform intelligent sensing and behavioral analysis in environments populated by entities—such as objects, organisms, or agents—that are incapable of reflecting on their own actions or experiences. These systems themselves do not possess awareness, agency, or understanding, and they function solely to extract and process data from unconscious subjects, without initiating any form of conscious interaction. The lack of self-awareness applies both to the AI system itself as it has no consciousness or self-representation, and to the entities being observed as they are unaware of their own internal state or that they are being observed. This article explores unconscious artificial intelligence.