Every Third AI Conversation: Uncertainty About Machine Consciousness Gets Misread as a Claim
AndyMasley · x · 2026-10-02
The author jokes that every third interaction lately is the same exchange: someone argues we shouldn't block all consideration of AI consciousness since philosophy of mind has lots of uncertainty, gets told "that's not evidence AI is conscious," and replies "correct, I never said it was."
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