Neuroscientist Anil Seth: silicon-based digital AI is vanishingly unlikely to be conscious
anilkseth · x · 2026-09-05
Consciousness researcher Anil Seth, in his TED 2026 talk (480k+ views), argues silicon-based digital AI is vanishingly unlikely to be or become conscious. He likens perceiving inner life in AI to seeing faces in clouds — a human tendency to project sentience onto brilliant mimics. He also cites WIRED's piece on models having their own ideas about consciousness, and links short, medium, and full-length versions of his argument.
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