Anil Seth

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Know Thyself · E205 - Anil Seth: Your Perception of Reality & Self Is a Hallucination · 28 Jul 2026 podcast

So if he thinks that, then who are we to disagree?

So the idea is very much out there already.

And it has consequences.

Of course, if AIs really are conscious, then they do deserve moral consideration.

And the fact that I think current AIs and near future ones are not likely to be, that doesn't mean conscious AI is impossible altogether.

The question here is how brain-like does an AI have to be

to move the needle on the credence that it might be conscious.

You make another brain out of the same stuff and that's going to be enough.

And technologies are changing.

People are building things that are more brain-like, neuromorphic, computing, hybrid systems, partly silicon, partly biological.

So we may get there at some point as the technologies change.

And here, I think the most important thing to say is this is a terrible idea.

Even if it's unlikely now, no one should be trying to build conscious AI.

Pretty much every science fiction novel out there tells us it's a terrible idea.

Things don't tend to go very well.

And it would inaugurate this ethical crisis that, okay, what do we do?

Can we turn these things off if we need to?

Do they have rights?

lots and lots of problems I just don't think it's a good idea to have conscious AIs we already have enough conscious things on the planet that we're failing to take care of properly that's one thing but the world we live in right now is not that world the world we live in right now is a world where these systems seem to be conscious and will increasingly give that impression most likely but they aren't or they're very unlikely to be

And the dangers here are related but very different.

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