Anil Seth's conscious AI collection published in BBS with 50 commentaries
anilkseth · x · 2026-09-18
Anil Seth announced that his long-in-the-making collection "Conscious AI and Biological Naturalism" is now out in Behavioral and Brain Sciences, with fifty commentaries from leading scholars including Karl Friston, Ted Chiang, Thomas Metzinger, Nita Farahany and many more across neuroscience, philosophy and AI.\n\nSeth himself remains highly skeptical about the prospects for conscious AI.
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