Seth, Block & Tononi make the case: why AI isn't conscious and may never be
sapinker · x · 2026-10-21
Cognitive scientist Steven Pinker highlights a lucid article by Anil Seth, Jeffrey Block, and Giulio Tononi laying out three reasons why AI is not conscious and perhaps never will be. The authors are leading figures in consciousness science — Seth known for controlled hallucination, Tononi for Integrated Information Theory — making this a notable counterpoint to claims that LLMs might have subjective experience.
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