Humanity has the debate about AI consciousness backwards

economist.com
August 27, 2026
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Humanity has the debate about AI consciousness backwards We don’t care for others because they’re conscious. We believe they’re conscious because we care about them, argues Blaise Agüera y Arcas ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE has triggered a crisis in the field of consciousness studies. If you’ve chatted with an advanced model, you will probably appreciate why. Most large language models (LLMs) are train...
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