@techreport{rdp45w,
  author = {Gilly, Travis},
  title = {{The Bill Comes Due at the Dog: Conditioning, Pattern Matching, and the Limits of Certainty About Machine Minds}},
  institution = {Real Safety AI Foundation},
  type = {Working Paper},
  year = {2026},
  month = jun,
  note = {Version 1.2},
  url = {https://realsafetyai.org/research/rdp45w/},
  keywords = {machine consciousness, moral status, pattern matching, animal cognition, problem of other minds, precautionary principle, world models, large language models}
}