"AI welfare is an ideology with thin technical support," researcher fires into consciousness debate
gerardsans · x · 2026-10-02
Joining the Jeff Sebo vs. Anil Seth AI consciousness debate, Gerard Sans argues "AI welfare is an ideology with very thin technical support," a common theme of the moment. He criticizes people using their own lack of technical literacy to sneak in metaphysics, framing conditioned sampling over frozen weights as a fringe show—arguing current AI consciousness claims lack grounding in deep understanding of Transformers.
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