If AI Saves Millions of Lives, Who Cares If It Truly Understands?
VraserX · x · 2026-10-11
The author takes a pragmatic stance against the long-running debate over AI "understanding" and consciousness: if an AI discovers a treatment that saves millions of lives, what matters is that patients are alive — not whether it passed someone's philosophical purity test. He argues some people have lost sight of why we do science in the first place.
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