Do LLMs know anything?

We are hosting a series of discussions focused on the philosophy of AI. Our motivating questions are whether today's LLMs have knowledge, whether they are conscious, whether they have agency, and finally whether they can be moral.

We begin with the question of knowledge for which we will read and discuss two papers.

Borg (2024) LLMs, Turing Tests and Chinese Rooms
Budding (2025) What Do Large Language Models Know?

You can find them here:
https://bit.ly/th-readings

For those of you who remember the old phil meetup. We are returning to the old format.