Anil Seth questions AI philosophy essay contest; critics say LLMs are inherently philosophical
MoonL88537 · x · 2026-09-03
A debate around Anil Seth's 'AI philosophy essay competition'. Seth argues philosophy, unlike math, mostly lacks provable open problems, so intelligent cognition alone may not drive philosophical progress. A critic pushes back: language models are essentially philosophical by nature, and objections like 'philosophy doesn't solve things' miss the point — we should study models' philosophical capability more closely.
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