Researchers Say Asking Whether AI Is Conscious Is the Wrong Question

Engineer Michael Basch and others argue that debating whether AI is conscious is a category error: today's computers lack nervous systems or anything analogous, making the question itself misframed.

2026-10-04 ~ 2026-10-04 · 2 related posts

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