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Meredith Martin

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Translation: Sociopath elitist tech fascists who think they’re creating God and believe democracy is the enemy want us to finance our own demise to let them take over the world. www.politico.com/news/2026/10...

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Great piece on why AI is not conscious, from people who really know what they’re talking about www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Three reasons why AI is not conscious and perhaps never will be nature.com
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  • Anil Seth, Ned Block and Giulio Tononi argue in Nature that consciousness in silicon-based AI is 'extraordinarily unlikely'.
  • The cerebellum holds nearly four-fifths of the brain's neurons yet does not affect conscious experience, the authors note.
  • The trio rejects a precautionary approach to AI welfare, framing current LLMs as mirrors of our digitized past.
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Great piece on why AI is not conscious, from people who really know what they’re talking about 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 a Nature comment that today's silicon-based AI systems are extraordinarily unlikely to be conscious.
  • They separate intelligence from feeling, noting the cerebellum holds nearly four-fifths of the brain's neurons yet contributes nothing directly to consciousness.
  • They warn that treating appearances of mind in LLMs as real risks diverting welfare attention from beings whose capacity to suffer is already certain.
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Great piece on why AI is not conscious, from people who really know what they’re talking about www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Three reasons why AI is not conscious and perhaps never will be nature.com
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  • Anil Seth, Ned Block and Giulio Tononi argue in a Nature comment published 19 October that current AI is not conscious and probably cannot be.
  • Their case stacks three moves: intelligence is not consciousness, computational functionalism is wrong, and leading theories of experience exclude today's architectures.
  • They judge false positives more likely than false negatives, so attributing consciousness to AI risks pulling moral attention from beings whose capacity to suffer is not in doubt.
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M.J. Crockett @mjcrockett.bsky.social

Great piece on why AI is not conscious, from people who really know what they’re talking about 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 today's AI systems are not conscious and probably never will be.
  • They separate intelligence from consciousness, noting the cerebellum holds nearly four-fifths of brain neurons yet produces no awareness.
  • They reject the idea that algorithms on silicon suffice for experience, calling large language models 'mirrors' of our digitized past.
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M.J. Crockett @mjcrockett.bsky.social

Great piece on why AI is not conscious, from people who really know what they’re talking about www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Three reasons why AI is not conscious and perhaps never will be nature.com
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  • Three senior consciousness researchers argue in a Nature essay that today's AI systems are not conscious and perhaps never will be.
  • They define consciousness as what disappears in dreamless sleep or under general anaesthesia, and treat it as distinct from intelligence.
  • The trio rejects computational functionalism and leans on integrated information theory to argue silicon architectures miss the bar.
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M.J. Crockett @mjcrockett.bsky.social

Great piece on why AI is not conscious, from people who really know what they’re talking about 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, Anil Seth, Ned Block and Giulio Tononi, co-signed a Nature essay arguing today's AI is not conscious.
  • Their first reason: the cerebellum holds nearly four-fifths of the brain's neurons yet contributes nothing to subjective experience, dissociating intelligence from consciousness.
  • They reject computational functionalism and argue deep-learning systems also fail on wiring, the interconnection pattern that integrated information theory requires.
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Have a smallish piece of new research at the intersection of humanities & machine learning or cultural analytics to share? Pitch it to @lbmcgrath.bsky.social, the special features editor of @culturalanalytics.bsky.social!

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Heads up the AI economy was going to wobble no matter who won the midterms; do not let them blame the stock market dip on Democrats that is what they want and are banking on. I usually wake up at midnight with this thought but still awake bc Maine & Michigan.

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Authors who are filing claims in the Anthropic lawsuit -- are you all going 50/50? I can't find the contract for my 2012 book. I know I can ask the press but I'm also just curious how folks are doing this.

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