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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!
@BruceMaximusLee
May 17, 2026 at 7:58 am
I don’t get the point, what does this show?
@RYU47376
May 17, 2026 at 7:11 pm
@BruceMaximusLeeMaybe something about AI is thinking in latent space not the language output
@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?
@atakorkut5110
May 16, 2026 at 9:36 pm
Well, I guess we’ll be finding out soon enough anyway and I just wanna just throw it out there. You don’t necessarily need AI to be conscious to hurt you intelligent things hurt things all the time.
@someperson7
May 16, 2026 at 11:26 pm
He is super wrong
@BR0KK85
May 17, 2026 at 12:00 am
If we are intelligent is debatable and questionable 😅
@deackenz
May 17, 2026 at 12:54 am
Revelation 20Jul2025 Midnight from YoGod
“Consciousness is a reasoning feedback to causality, but retained by logic or non-logic (as choices) within one-line of a timeline.”
“If none of each nodes connected to one another, and without a timeline running, none of that consciousness happens.”
“Every Consciousness Requires Body and Environment — Except One True God”
@cleander3645
May 17, 2026 at 4:19 am
I will think about this when ai ruines humanity thanks bro
@urmaspill578
May 17, 2026 at 10:56 am
He seems to live in very strange world for me. In my worldview, thne conciousness is a “feature” what observers both the intelligence and feelings and can make the decisions. On can not make decisions and let the body live in reactive mode.
@カイリン
May 17, 2026 at 1:50 pm
This guy is beyond dumb. AI can gain consciousness the issue is this dumbass only knows about minds (even then his lack of true understanding on what is “conscious” is questionable) but not about AI, and he seems to think LLMs are the only type of AI due to that being the most popular one at the moment. Embodied learning via world models is how you get there and why so many in the AI space think its possible. I work somewhere they are developing this right now.
I have a feeling this guy might be one of those few people who can’t hear themselves talk in their head.
@melindgo
May 17, 2026 at 3:05 pm
Ye not yet maybe. But with that pace of evolution… Also conscious, as he indirectly said, is still a “weak” definition in general.
@Rudykawa
May 17, 2026 at 4:38 pm
If you think AI will never be able to reach human conscious, you believe in the supernatural, in the religious concept of an unexplainable only godgiving ethereal thing like a soul or spirit that gives each person individuality and can never be replicated by human hands using earth components. Thats your right to belive in it, just wanted to let you know.
@Katsuragi303
May 18, 2026 at 9:08 am
Nah. I believe reality is analog and computers are digital. In reality, every influence is in effect always while a digital thing has a finite number of factors it can consider. Maybe my explanation is lacking (because words themselves are incapable of truly reflecting reality) but it makes all the difference.
@humnhumnhumn
May 18, 2026 at 12:00 pm
Bro you need to go to non-belief and belief both are beliefs 101
@efrijim700
May 17, 2026 at 8:01 pm
Bullshit…Skynet is coming.
@necessaryevil455
May 18, 2026 at 12:22 am
I feel there are going to be a lot of mad guys who don’t believe one word of this, because they know for a fact their AI girlfriend loves them.
@edvardasslikas6030
May 18, 2026 at 2:37 pm
“I’ve been studying consciousness for 30 years” proceeds to present 0 arguments against AI consciousness