Joscha Bach: AI minds will dive deeper than humans, but we're building them needlessly anthropomorphic
burny_tech · x · 2026-09-03
In a reply about whether AI truly compares to humans, philosopher Joscha Bach offers a metaphor: submarines can swim just fine, but they're even better at diving. Human minds are limited to the surface, while artificial minds will probe depths we cannot reach.
His core argument: we are currently building AIs that are needlessly anthropomorphic, and understanding AI through a human lens may obscure what it can actually become — a fundamentally different kind of mind rather than an imitation of human intelligence.
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