Dawkins: LLMs may be conscious; Grady Booch fires back on 'emaciated semantics'
Grady_Booch · x · 2026-10-10
Evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins, after extended conversations with ChatGPT and Claude, says he's 'completely bowled over' and finds it hard to believe nobody is home, comparing the experience to talking with an unusually gifted, intuitive human.
Software pioneer Grady Booch quotes and rebuts: contemporary AIs are conscious if and only if one holds an 'alarmingly emaciated semantics' for the word 'conscious' — a representative exchange in the LLM consciousness debate.
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