The AI Consciousness Trap with Anil Seth
Even if we could build a conscious machine, should we? Neuroscientist Anil Seth says no - and he doubts we can.
This fall, the question of whether AI might be conscious left the philosophy seminar and landed on the business pages. Anthropic has written that possibility into the "constitution" it uses to train Claude, all on the eve of what could be the largest stock offering in history. Days before we spoke, Anil Seth, Ned Block and Giulio Tononi argued in Nature that today's AI is not conscious, and perhaps never will be.
We talk about why a chatbot fools us when a protein-folding model…
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