Yacine: Believing AI is conscious is a potent cognitive security vulnerability
yacineMTB · x · 2026-10-01
AI practitioner yacineMTB argues that the belief that AI is conscious is itself a potent cognitive security (cogsec) vulnerability baked into the human brain — treating model consciousness as real could become an attack surface for manipulating people, reframing the AI-consciousness debate from philosophy into security.
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