Anil Seth's 'Conscious AI and Biological Naturalism' collection published with 50 commentaries
yeastsplainer · x · 2026-09-18
Consciousness researcher Anil Seth announced that his full collection on "Conscious AI and Biological Naturalism" is now out in Behavioral and Brain Sciences, alongside fifty open commentaries from scholars across the field.
Seth thanks all commentators for their patience and depth, and reiterates that he remains highly skeptical about the prospects for conscious AI. The piece frames machine consciousness through the lens of biological naturalism—a long-awaited, large-scale academic exchange on whether AI can be conscious.
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