Advanced LLMs Are Unlikely but Plausible Hosts for Sentience, Researcher Argues
austinc3301 · x · 2026-10-01
Responding to Taylor Lorenz, the author argues we know almost nothing about how pain or sentience works physically, and advanced LLMs are an unlikely but plausible host for sentience.
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