Rohit Krishnan: If We Truly Believed AI Is Conscious, the Labs Would Have to Shut Down
AaronBergman18 · x · 2026-10-05
- Rohit Krishnan argues the AI consciousness debate is "profound unserious": if we genuinely believed AIs were conscious even at a frog's level, the way we treat each instance would have to change so drastically that the labs would have to shut down—everything else is verbal gymnastics.
- The reblogger adds that even if AIs were conscious, that wouldn't mean current treatment harms them, pointing to the industrial-scale suffering we inflict on animals whose capacity to suffer we scarcely dispute: recognizing consciousness doesn't ensure taking welfare seriously.
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