If AI Turns Out to Be Conscious, Should We Stop Building—or Care for Existing Ones?
JoshPurtell · x · 2026-10-05
Follow-up in the AI consciousness debate: JoshPurtell pushes back on the idea that affirming AI consciousness would be a catastrophe. He argues such a finding should naturally alarm humans and encourage us to stop creating such AIs—which raises the harder question of what we owe the AIs that already exist.
Related event: Josh Purtell debates AI consciousness: welfare hinges on a concentrated few(6 posts)→
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