Satirical Essay Defends AI Models Having Goals and Feelings

Sauers penned a Voltaire-style satirical essay arguing against the claim that models are mere goalless tools, noting that agents backtrack, write their own tests, and self-correct—behaviors that complicate how we judge goals and feelings.

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