Kurzweil predicts AI will be accepted as conscious due to indistinguishable behavior
yeastsplainer · x · 2026-08-31
Ray Kurzweil predicts that as AIs consistently exhibit all the earmarks of consciousness, people will simply accept them as conscious—not because of proof, but because it will be useless not to. The author agrees, noting that like humans, we determine consciousness via behavior.
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