Rebutting absolute AI non-sentience: arguments also deny human potential
perrymetzger · x · 2026-08-20
In response to the claim that "AI can never develop consciousness, sentience, or moral status," Perry Metzger counters that any argument used to prove this would equally prove that humans could never develop those traits either.
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