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Many experts think conscious AI is an inevitability. Neuroscientist Anil Seth thinks they’re wrong.

We see consciousness in AI the same way we see faces in clouds, says neuroscientist Anil Seth. He explores the all-too-human tendency to project inner life onto machines that are brilliant mimics, not sentient beings, and gives a definitive answer to the urgent question: Will AI ever gain consciousness?

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We see consciousness in AI the same way we see faces in clouds, says neuroscientist Anil Seth. He explores the all-too-human tendency to project inner life onto machines that are brilliant mimics, not sentient beings, and gives a definitive answer to the urgent question: Will AI ever gain consciousness?

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  1. @NewtonMD

    May 16, 2026 at 3:04 pm

    Just being code doesn’t mean necessarily unconscious in my books. State of mind can emerge from the coded

  2. @RedFox-vo2xo

    May 16, 2026 at 3:16 pm

    There’s a lot of things not being taken into account here. The brain uploads, the neural mapping, and assuming those things won’t be absorbed. But ai has already killed a person n it was contraversial n then hushed up

    • @deliafrye7753

      May 16, 2026 at 3:22 pm

      😮

    • @MrJKJKJK1974

      May 16, 2026 at 5:40 pm

      If it was hushed up, how did you get to hear about it?

  3. @unusualaquariumecosystems5805

    May 16, 2026 at 3:20 pm

    That bloke sounds drunk. He doesn’t know what he’s saying.

  4. @MLML-24

    May 16, 2026 at 3:26 pm

    So people need specialists to tell them that AI will never be conscious. 🤦🏿‍♂️

    • @ivannovotny4552

      May 16, 2026 at 3:41 pm

      @MLML
      Some folks read one book and become “specialists” overnight on the subject.

    • @MLML-24

      May 16, 2026 at 5:16 pm

      @ivannovotny4552haha true.

    • @ivannovotny4552

      May 16, 2026 at 5:36 pm

      ​@MLML-24-
      Indeed

  5. @tmm226

    May 16, 2026 at 4:30 pm

    The universe will not allow AI to be conscious, period..

    • @MrJKJKJK1974

      May 16, 2026 at 5:40 pm

      Huh?

  6. @omnithewolf3628

    May 16, 2026 at 5:22 pm

    Sperm whales are conscious and intelligent. Scientist just found out they speak a very complex language!

  7. @MrJKJKJK1974

    May 16, 2026 at 5:39 pm

    AI is already exhibiting signs of consciousness. The only reason this expert gives for it not becoming conscious, is because it’s not alive. But it is.

    • @BjornLarson-z8f

      May 16, 2026 at 6:01 pm

      this is untrue. llm’s are statistical text generators. it may seem like it has intelligence, but it does not.

  8. @Benoit-Pierre

    May 16, 2026 at 6:41 pm

    Man will never flight.

    The earth is flat.

    There is a world market for 5 computers.

    Or not

  9. @waxwingvain

    May 16, 2026 at 6:55 pm

    Vague speech

  10. @ionatomics

    May 16, 2026 at 7:42 pm

    This dude spent 30 years just to be a complete moron?

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