AI 'godfather' LeCun has 'zero concerns' about human extinction

Re:AI 'godfather' LeCun has 'zero concerns' about human exti... by ggreer on Sunday October 04, 2026 @04:04PM (#49957308)

By your rules, LLMs & deaf-blind people are not conscious, but self-driving cars are? Also a brain in a vat is not conscious?

The real answer is that we don't know if LLMs are conscious, and we don't really know how we'd that figure out. I guess if an AI wrote a philosophy paper on consciousness that had new insights, that might change some minds. But even that would fail to convince most people.

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Re:AI 'godfather' LeCun has 'zero concerns' about human exti... by confidantlake on Monday October 05, 2026 @07:52PM (#49972354)

These are not my rules. I was responding to the person above me. It was he who was saying consciousness is responding to the environment. I too disagree with that definition. A thermometer or a NAND gate responds to its environment but I do not believe either is conscious.

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