"The horse is not a car": a sharp rebuttal to AI consciousness claims
gerardsans · x · 2026-10-11
Responding to a discussion on AI consciousness, the author takes a hard line: AI is software—"the horse is not a car," it is not a mind, a person, or something with a self. Text in, text out.
He argues that putting animals and software in the same moral conversation already signals sloppy critical thinking, and urges people to familiarize themselves with the technology enough not to believe it is something it never was.
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