Asking Whether AI Is Conscious May Be a Category Error

A widely shared argument holds that asking whether AI has consciousness is a category error, since we cannot verify inner subjective states even in others. The real question is whether AI belongs to the category of person, animal, or tool—and how we should coexist with it.

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