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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?
@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
@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?
@unusualaquariumecosystems5805
May 16, 2026 at 3:20 pm
That bloke sounds drunk. He doesn’t know what he’s saying.
@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
@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?
@omnithewolf3628
May 16, 2026 at 5:22 pm
Sperm whales are conscious and intelligent. Scientist just found out they speak a very complex language!
@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.
@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
@waxwingvain
May 16, 2026 at 6:55 pm
Vague speech
@ionatomics
May 16, 2026 at 7:42 pm
This dude spent 30 years just to be a complete moron?