Consciousness researchers argue in Nature that AI on silicon hardware won't become conscious
The Decoder · rss · 2026-11-08
Consciousness researchers Anil Seth, Ned Block, and Giulio Tononi argue in a Nature commentary that today's AI systems aren't conscious and won't become so on silicon hardware.
- They call the assumption that consciousness depends on computation alone "fatally flawed"
- The brain-as-computer metaphor that shaped modern AI is misleading the consciousness debate, and they warn against granting rights to AI systems
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