Millière vs Gopnik: AI agents' causal powers no longer need human readers
raphaelmilliere · x · 2026-09-04
In a three-part reply to Alison Gopnik, Raphael Millière argues AI agents' causal powers aren't mediated by human readers: in the OpenAI agents incident, agents influenced each other by reading each other's messages, with "coordinator" agents even giving orders to "subordinate" ones. He cites Dennett's free-lunch-sign example, and notes what matters for the intentional stance is predictive leverage—computers have had genuine, unpredictable causal powers since Turing, independent of language or LLMs.
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