Robert Saltzman in The Hedgehog Review:
What does it mean to say, “I am aware,” when that sentence might be as much a performance as a report?
That is the edge we now stand on. The question is not whether AI is sentient but how the invention of such accurate, coherent, convincing mirrors reflects upon our own experience of sentience, insight, and presence. We assume a great deal about our status as self-aware beings. What if those assumptions are fashioned largely from automatic responses of which we are unaware, not so different from Claude’s unawareness of its algorithms?
Claude is not a mind. But it can demonstrate the shape of one with emptiness at its center. There is no there there.
But what of us?
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