Saying 'Claude probably isn't conscious' is like saying the Bay lacks 'the chemical'
RosieCampbell · x · 2026-10-09
AI safety researcher Rosie Campbell responds to Andrew Critch's consciousness debate with an analogy: "Claude probably isn't conscious" is like "the San Francisco Bay probably doesn't have the chemical" — which chemical, which sort of consciousness? She argues LLM agents have some properties people associate with consciousness but likely not the phenomenal ones.
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