"Qualiaphobia for AI Safety" pitch gets roasted on X

erikphoel · x · 2026-11-13

Bicameral Labs announced "Qualiaphobia for AI Safety": AI architectures engineered to be hostile to theories of consciousness (current and future), claiming this solves AI welfare and ensures human preferences dominate the future. The pitch drew widespread mockery on X as barely believable word salad.

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