dioscuri: Over-ascribing sentience to AI has tragedies 'hard to exaggerate'
dioscuri · x · 2026-09-24
In an exchange on AI sentience, dioscuri argues that people constantly confuse the metaphor of agency with actual subjective internality, and that the downstream tragedies of over-ascribing sentience to math are hard to exaggerate. He notes the question remains actively controversial in philosophy of mind, cognitive science and AI research, with senior figures like Hinton, Chalmers and Sutskever taking machine sentience seriously.
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