The brain-as-computer metaphor shaped modern AI but may be misleading the consciousness debate

Consciousness researchers Anil Seth, Ned Block, and Giulio Tononi argue in a Nature commentary that today's AI systems aren't conscious and won't become so on silicon hardware. They consider the assumption that consciousness depends on computation alone "fatally flawed" and warn against granting rights to AI systems. The article The brain-as-computer metaphor shaped modern AI but may be misleading the consciousness debate appeared first on The Decoder .