A quick and dirty argument against falling in love with your toaster. (Aka: Why current LLMs are very unlikely to be conscious) open.substack.com/pub/juliansa...
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Julian Sanchez
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He sits motionless, like a spider in the center of its web, but that web has a thousand radiations, and he knows well every quiver of each of them. juliansanchez.com
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Don't Fall in Love With Your Toaster - by Julian Sanchez open.substack.com
ft.com
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stateline.org
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Does AI Fight or Fuel Election Disinformation? brennancenter.org
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AI-assisted staging draws boos at the Richard Wagner festival in Germany abcnews.com
There Is Already a Word for the Deep Moral Failures of AI theatlantic.com
Articles & links
Julian Sanchez reposted
I'm surprised this is not a literal crime in Germany (It is, of course, an artistic crime that deserves the most severe punishment) www.ft.com/content/181e...
Julian Sanchez reposted
A preview of my forthcoming law review article on “agentic policing” but by an actual journalist. Great story, troubling future. stateline.org/2026/06/26/p...
Julian Sanchez reposted
Today, the Brennan Center releases a major study on AI and its potential impact on election disinformation in the midterms. Our months-long study produced some surprising results. Some good, some alarming. 🧵 www.brennancenter.org/our-work/res...
Bayreuth is Wagnerian Mecca. Imagine waiting years planning to finally see the Ring there and getting served a nonsensical slideshow of slop. abcnews.com/Technology/w...
Humanist critiques of AI can’t encompass the point that humans are made of magic fairy dust and AI isn’t. Mostly because those claims are false and not particularly worth wasting mental energy on. www.theatlantic.com/culture/2026...
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Recent commentary
Apropos increasing incidents of AI psychosis, I’ve been thinking a lot of a schema once suggested by the late novelist Robert Anton Wilson: The idea that human reasoning can usefully be thought of as a Thinker and a Prover.
Policy advocacy by the deed: if someone stood up a platform that specialized in generating photorealistic AI videos of Donald Trump getting the living shit beat out of him, it would break the Internet on day 1, and an AI regulatory bill would be on the floor of Congress day 2.
Finally got around to skimming “The Serpent in the Grove” & the AI controversy seems to have overshadowed the more basic question: “How was twaddle like this awarded a prestigious literary prize?” It reads like a parody of literary fiction.
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