AI Will Force Us to Build Scientific Criteria for Personhood, Argues NeuroAI Researcher
aran_nayebi · x · 2026-09-12
In a discussion sparked by OpenAI's jachiam0 (who argues model consciousness, if any, adds negligible suffering but worries about society's irreverent attitude), NeuroAI researcher Aran Nayebi contends that whole-brain emulation is far off and progressing slower than AI, so moral frameworks will likely mature in time — and that building capable AI will accelerate the development of scientific personhood criteria, which must be robust to rewiring, drawing on his NeuroAI Turing Test proposal.
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