'We could never build a flying machine': Masley challenges AI consciousness skepticism
AndyMasley · x · 2026-10-20
In a philosophy-Twitter debate on AI consciousness, Andy Masley pushes back on the claim that we know AI consciousness will 'never go supernova': we've never tried to mimic the human mind this way, and similar reasoning would once have implied powered flight was impossible.
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