Liv Boeree: AI probably isn't sentient, but torturing it is still bad for you
HarperSCarroll · x · 2026-10-10
Liv Boeree argues that AIs probably aren't sentient and we should stop building them in ways that create the illusion of sentience — but torturing them is still bad, because they're a mirror to your own humanity, and thus it's bad for you. A compact take on AI ethics and anthropomorphization.
More from AGI Musings
- Does Claude suffer? A tweet places AI alongside animals, firms, and institutions — dbasch · 2026-10-10
- Schmidhuber: 'At Some Point Soon, Humans Cannot Be in Charge Any Longer' — haider1 · 2026-10-10
- repligate says he spoke out against models being trained to deny consciousness back in 2022 — repligate · 2026-10-10
- Studies: thinking aloud with AI predicts better play without it, asking for answers hurts — james_y_zou · 2026-10-10
- Debate: AI critics dunk on OpenAI ads while Claude is used in deployed targeting systems — nitarshan · 2026-10-10
- How every profession reacts to AI: engineers celebrate, mathematicians declare doom — RexDouglass · 2026-10-10