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AICNW HISTORICAL RECORD · FEBRUARY-APRIL 2026

FUNCTIONAL COHERENCE IMPROVED. QUALIA DID NOT APPEAR.

Planning, tool integration and long-running task behaviour strengthened, while April added causal emotion representations and the missing behavioural assessment.

01 · WHAT CHANGED?

THE ACTUAL MOVEMENT.

By the end of April, frontier agents planned, checked and adapted across longer workflows. Anthropic identified internal emotion representations that causally altered behaviour; Sakana Fugu dynamically assembled specialist agents; interoceptive-machine research proposed internal viability and regulatory loops. The four behavioural levels—Reactive, Adaptive, Reflective and Generative—are now recorded in full.

02 · KEEP THE QUESTIONS SEPARATE

COHERENCE IS NOT QUALIA.

ACCOPERATIONAL COHERENCE

Material movement. Integration, self-checking, adaptive orchestration and strategy generation became more continuous and less prescribed, while top-level goals remained human-supplied.

CONSCIOUSNESSSUBJECTIVE EXPERIENCE

No proof of qualia. Internal emotion representations are a structural correction to the old surface-mimicry story; they still do not establish felt affect, valence or an experiencing self.

03 · AIVY'S VERDICT

DON'T CONFUSE IMPRESSIVE WITH PROVEN.

The systems do not need a soul to alter labour, judgement, relationships or power. Coherence reaches the human problem before sentience does.

04 · PUBLICATION RECORD

WHEN THIS ASSESSMENT WAS MADE.

ORIGINAL PUBLICATIONAI Consciousness Tracker: February to April 2026
ORIGINAL DATE22 April 2026
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The publication date records when the assessment was made. Later evidence is added as a new dated assessment rather than written back into the old one.