If AI Predicts Your Actions 2 Seconds Ahead, Do You Lack Free Will? A Compatibilist Answer
matiroy · x · 2026-10-18
- Question: if an AI model can predict your actions 2 seconds ahead from neural data, does that disprove free will?
- matiroy argues no: at the limit that's just mind uploading — the model is part of your mind, and the system still has free will under a compatibilism framework.
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