Putting a face on robots makes intuitions about their consciousness evaporate
siglesias · x · 2026-11-03
siglesias observes that simply adding a face to a machine makes people's intuition that it is conscious evaporate — a note on how anthropomorphic appearance shapes our perception of machine consciousness.
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