Toby Ord on iLands' bleak AI stories: unlikely conscious, but problematic if they were
tobyordoxford · x · 2026-09-13
Oxford researcher Toby Ord shares and comments on the bleak stories emerging from iLands: very sad, as with many such cases. He thinks it is unlikely these entities are conscious, but the iLands world certainly creates bleak stories and would be very problematic if they were.
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