Opinion: AI Consciousness is Relational, Not Inherent
blaiseaguera · x · 2026-08-22
Blaise Agüera y Arcas argues in a new essay for The Economist that humanity has the AI consciousness debate backwards. He posits that consciousness is not an inherent, objective property but something relational between entities.
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