Grady Booch Grills Nate: Even If AI 'Thinks,' So What?
Grady_Booch · x · 2026-09-25
In an ongoing debate with Nate over whether contemporary AI "thinks," Grady Booch concedes the casual semantics for argument's sake and presses the real question: so what?
- He demands an actionable, testable, useful consequence of the assertion, not just semantics
- If organic and AI "thinking" are equated, should AIs be granted rights — or held to certain accountability?
- Does the equation increase, diminish, or leave unchanged what we know about organic intelligence?
Related event: Grady Booch: Modern AI "Thinks" Only in the Loosest Sense(2 posts)→
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