Hot take: AI compares consciousness across species better than biased human scholars
yeastsplainer · x · 2026-10-05
Quoting chemist Lee Cronin's claim that current AI isn't sentient but serves as a 'stupid detector,' user yeastsplainer argues the opposite: ask an AI to compare the consciousness of AIs, chickens, pigs, insects, newborns, and people in vegetative states, and it gives intelligent, literature-grounded answers (behavior, comparative neuroanatomy, cognitive science) with no ax to grind — while humans are 'lazy, biased, unresponsive, zero-citation' sources on the same topic. A spirited AI-consciousness debate, not a consensus view.