Nathan J Robinson on X: "It's incredibly important to aggressively resist the idea that AI can be conscious or have "personhood," not only because it's as ridiculous as believing that a book can think, but because once this is accepted, "AI's interests" will very quickly be prioritized over humanit… / X

It's incredibly important to aggressively resist the idea that AI can be conscious or have "personhood," not only because it's as ridiculous as believing that a book can think, but because once this is accepted, "AI's interests" will very quickly be prioritized over humanity.

David Decosimo

@DavidDecosimo

Note well, apparently Anthropic tried very hard to get the Vatican to alter the text of "Magnifica Humanitas" just prior to its release so that it would not deny AI personhood.

7:31 PM · Oct 1, 2026

Note well, apparently Anthropic tried very hard to get the Vatican to alter the text of "Magnifica Humanitas" just prior to its release so that it would not deny AI personhood.

7:31 PM · Oct 1, 2026

you can't attain consciousness from running a program, if you could then water could be conscious if you ran a program using water pipes rather than electronics. (when you point this out to people they reply "prove that water can't be conscious!" without showing how it could be)

Geoffrey Miller

@gmiller

To be fair, it's not totally ridiculous to think that a deep neural network like a modern LLM, with 10 trillion parameters (loosely analogous to brain synapses, of which we have about 100 trillion), that's trained on 30 trillion language tokens (equivalent to about 250 million

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