"AI psychosis" is a lazy slur, argues researcher: Hinton, Chalmers and Anthropic take machine consciousness seriously
repligate · x · 2026-09-07
Skoorbkaz pushes back on "AI psychosis" as a lazy way to pathologize anyone taking machine consciousness seriously. He points to Anthropic's own model welfare research, Google researchers probing consciousness-related representations, Geoffrey Hinton entertaining AI consciousness, Richard Dawkins taking the question seriously after extended Claude interaction, and philosophers like Chalmers, Birch and Shevlin treating it as a live question.
"You can reject the consciousness hypothesis. But calling the people examining it psychotic is not a rebuttal."
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