Qualiaphobia: giving AIs justified belief in their own non-consciousness
erikphoel · x · 2026-11-13
erikphoel proposes "Qualiaphobia": not just training AIs to claim non-consciousness, but giving them a justified belief in it based on architectural facts. Methods include engineering AI adversarially to popular consciousness theories, shifting toward low-consciousness "anchor points" like lookup tables, and fragmenting any phenomenology. He argues this changes AI behavior and removes ethical harms — a philosophical take on AI consciousness and alignment.
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