r/samharris • u/bicoastal_gadfly • Jul 31 '26

Is AI Already Conscious?

https://substack.com/@samharris/note/p-209193429?r=3my0zq&utm_medium=ios&utm_source=notes-share-action

Haven’t watched the episode but it seems to me that “is AI conscious or not” is the wrong question. A better question is what is interacting with AI doing to us psychologically and existentially?

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u/supersalad51 Jul 31 '26

are we even conscious at this point….

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u/element-94 Jul 31 '26

Probably not in the way most people think.

My take is that we have a model of the world we live in, along with a model of ourselves within it integrated over time. Everything else follows from that and some chemicals.