Consciousness (another term that is too vague) sure. LLMs do not have a high-bandwidth stream of subjective experience at all similar to animals. But agency? Y

Consciousness (another term that is too vague) sure. LLMs do not have a high-bandwidth stream of subjective experience at all similar to animals. But agency? You just give the LLM an open-ended goal and access to manipulate the environment and run in a loop. Many examples of this. Of course its not the same type of agency that animals have, doesn't have self-preservation instincts etc., but there are enough movies and TV shows demonstrating why that may be a pretty bad idea anyway.