Episode

A Few More Thoughts On AI And Consciousness

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JOHNSTONE
Published
May 7, 2026
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242
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Summary

I am confident the chatbots aren't conscious in the same way I'm confident the animatronics at Disneyland aren't conscious. I know humans constructed them to mimic the behavior of a sentient person. We know this for a fact. Nobody's pretending otherwise. Reading by Tim Foley.