Writer Kate Willett: frontier AI builders can't accept they're engineers, not God
AlexTensor · x · 2026-09-28
Writer Kate Willett weighs in on the AI consciousness debate, calling frontier model builders' attitude "a narcissistic delusion — they can't accept they are just engineers, not God." It stems from a joke about coining a slur for people who think AI is conscious.
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