Qualiaphobia: engineering AI architectures that 'repel consciousness' as an AI safety strategy
erikphoel · x · 2026-11-13
Bicameral Labs proposes "Qualiaphobia for AI Safety": designing AI architectures hostile to current and future theories of consciousness — like hydrophobic substances repelling water or hostile-architecture benches no one wants to sit on — machines no "ghost" would haunt, such that no theory of consciousness could predict they are conscious. The author claims this solves AI welfare and ensures human preferences dominate the future. Proposed methods include engineering AI adversarially to popular consciousness theories, shifting AI toward anchor points with minimal potential for consciousness (like lookup tables), and fragmenting any phenomenology AI might have.
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