Grady Booch: claiming LLMs can think inverts the burden of proof
AlexTensor · x · 2026-09-26
Software legend Grady Booch weighs in on the debate with Joscha Bach: "LLMs can think" is an extraordinary claim, so the burden of proof lies with claimants per Carl Sagan's dictum. Demanding skeptics prove LLMs cannot think is unscientific — one cannot prove a negative.
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