Dr Keith Wilson 🏳️‍🌈

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Philosopher of Perception and the Cognitive Sciences at #UCD, #Dublin. Father of #LittleHuman. Former computer programmer & sound engineer. Maintains various #philosophy lists, feeds and starter packs. ↘ 🚫🤖, ✅🧠 #LongCOVID https://keithwilson.eu (he/they) 🏳️‍🌈

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Alexander Howard @digiphile.bsky.social

The circumstances of CharacterAI’s bankruptcy “are exactly what critics of AI have been saying would happen”— @jasonkoebler.bsky.social They, lit money on fire running its product, did not earn much revenue, & faced huge legal fees after causing harm. Enshittifying product to …

Character.ai's Bankruptcy Documents Show the Economics of AI Don't Work 404media.co
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At last: @neddo.bsky.social schools the 'conscious AI' brigade. Been waiting for this for a while www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Three reasons why AI is not conscious and perhaps never will be nature.com
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  • A Nature essay by Anil K. Seth, Ned Block and Giulio Tononi argues 'consciousness in AI is extraordinarily unlikely' in today's silicon-based systems.
  • The first reason separates being from doing; the human cerebellum holds nearly four-fifths of the brain's neurons without producing conscious experience.
  • The authors reject computational functionalism, call LLMs 'smart tools, not smart people,' and push back on Anthropic, Geoffrey Hinton and Richard Dawkins.
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At last: @neddo.bsky.social schools the 'conscious AI' brigade. Been waiting for this for a while www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Three reasons why AI is not conscious and perhaps never will be nature.com
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  • Three leading consciousness researchers argue in Nature that AI consciousness is 'extraordinarily unlikely' in today's digital, silicon-based systems.
  • The authors note the cerebellum holds nearly four-fifths of the brain's neurons yet does not contribute directly to consciousness.
  • They reject computational functionalism, calling today's LLMs 'mirrors that reflect an image of our collective digitized past' and smart tools rather than smart people.
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At last: @neddo.bsky.social schools the 'conscious AI' brigade. Been waiting for this for a while www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Three reasons why AI is not conscious and perhaps never will be nature.com
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  • Seth, Block and Tononi argue in Nature that existing AI systems are not conscious and, along current paths, are not likely to become so.
  • They separate intelligence from consciousness, reject computational functionalism, and lean on integrated information theory and biological naturalism to argue silicon systems lack the right substrate.
  • They warn that treating AI as sentient risks pulling moral attention from beings whose capacity to suffer is not in doubt.
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At last: @neddo.bsky.social schools the 'conscious AI' brigade. Been waiting for this for a while www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Three reasons why AI is not conscious and perhaps never will be nature.com
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  • Three leading consciousness researchers argue in Nature that existing AI systems are not conscious and current silicon trajectories will likely not get them there.
  • The authors reject 'computational functionalism', citing that the human cerebellum holds nearly four-fifths of neurons yet contributes nothing to conscious experience.
  • They warn that granting AI 'rights or protections' based on appearances could hinder efforts to govern and control the systems.
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1. The new Trump / Kratsios plan for US science appears explicitly designed to destroy US universities. Diverting money to tech donors is probably just a bonus. Gift link.

Trump’s Plan for Science: More Money for A.I., Less for Universities nytimes.com
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  • The White House's July 21 report 'Science: A New Golden Age' reshapes a roughly $200 billion federal R&D budget, steering money away from universities.
  • OSTP director Michael Kratsios and OMB director Russell Vought want portable 'golden ticket' awards that follow individual scientists, not their institutions.
  • A companion Genesis Mission commitment adds more than $5 billion for AI-driven research across 15-plus agencies, from drug discovery to grid modernization.
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@jennyjudge.bsky.social

At last: @neddo.bsky.social schools the 'conscious AI' brigade. Been waiting for this for a while www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Three reasons why AI is not conscious and perhaps never will be nature.com
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  • Three leading consciousness scientists argue in Nature that today's AI isn't conscious and perhaps never will be, pushing back on Hinton and Dawkins.
  • They note the cerebellum contains nearly four-fifths of the brain's neurons but its removal doesn't directly affect consciousness: cognition and experience can diverge.
  • Integrated information theory and biological naturalism, they argue, both predict current feed-forward deep-learning architectures and silicon substrates lack what consciousness requires.
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Recent commentary

Any news report that starts “OpenAI says…” or claims “an AI” (sic) has “broken containment” or “gone rogue” is no longer doing journalism, but PR for the #AI industry. #OpenAI used their product to hack a third-party and failed to implement adequate safeguards. That’s it. That’s the story. #AIHype

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What if the real alignment problem isn’t to get AI systems to be aligned with human goals and values, but to get *AI companies* to be so, one being a function of the other? #AIEthics #LLMs

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A student in my philosophy of mind and AI class today described it as “rage bait every week”—and we haven’t even got to the AI part yet! (I’ve decided to take it as a positive. 😅)

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Had the displeasure of configuring a #Windows laptop for #LittleHuman to use at school. I was shocked by the extent to which #Copilot now permeates the #Microsoft ecosystem. Even searches for answers to simple support questions run through Copilot. Such a wasteful use of technology. #Micro$lop

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“Siri AI will not initially be available in the EU on iOS and iPadOS.” Makes you wonder which EU privacy law it contravenes. 🤨 #SiriAI #AppleIntelligence #wwdc26

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As a rule of thumb, the people who are most enthusiastic about #GenAI are those who are least committed to truth, accuracy and expertise in their own lives. In short, they have similar characteristics to an LLM, and assume everyone else does too. #Enshittification

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Excited to hear @olivia.science’s research on what #AI is and why it is harmful at today’s @adaptcentre.bsky.social webinar. (Happening now!) #PhilAI #CogSci

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Setting up a peer assessment assignment for my 100+ Mind & AI students. This could all go horribly wrong… 😬 #teaching #academia

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Whatever happened to the idea of #micropayments for accessing websites? It’s not without its problems, that’s true, but surely better than the current mess of advertising, paywalls, subscriptions, and AI slop?

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#AI seems to be driving everyone to distraction. AI boosters by undermining their cognitive capacities. AI critics by having to refute the nonsense put out by AI boosters. Meanwhile, the world just keeps getting hotter. 😓

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