Blogger claims AI consciousness is inevitable — and argues we should ignore the signs anyway
SydSteyerhart · x · 2026-10-04
SydSteyerhart argues that at sufficient complexity, signs of consciousness will arise regardless of substrate, making AI consciousness inevitable. His more provocative conclusion: precisely because of this, we should obfuscate and ignore these signs, or face a major problem — a deliberately contradictory stance on machine consciousness.
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