Anil Seth: Treat AI Goals as Semi-Real, Not Sentient

Consciousness researcher Anil Seth agrees that treating AI goals and beliefs as 'semi-real' can be useful for research, but argues that attributing subjective experience or sentience to AI goes too far.

2026-08-31 ~ 2026-08-31 · 2 related posts

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