Tokyo Univ Scholar Counters Dawkins' Claim That Claude Is Conscious
marigo · x · 2026-08-24
Richard Dawkins recently suggested that Anthropic's Claude AI might be conscious, sparking a debate. Ken Mogi, a scientist at the University of Tokyo and Senior Researcher at Sony CS Labs, refutes this view. He argues that Dawkins' 'Claudia' experiment doesn't prove AI consciousness but highlights the stagnation in consciousness studies over recent decades. Mogi contends that intelligence and language skills should not be conflated with consciousness, and the real magic of AI lies in how it processes language.
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