Consciousness Experts Clash in Nature Over Whether AI Could Ever Be Conscious
anilkseth · x · 2026-10-21
Anil Seth, Dedicto and Giulio Tononi argue in Nature that AI is not and may never be conscious. Jeff Sebo pushes back that the essay misses its real target; Seth responds that the default position and policy should be that AI systems aren't conscious, hinging on what counts as a "realistic possibility" and the tradeoffs between false positives and false negatives.
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