What Caspar Henderson thinks about AI sentience

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British writer and journalist on science, the environment and human rights; author of The Book of Barely Imagined Beings (2012), A New Map of Wonders (2017) and A Book of Noises (2023).

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1. 31 May 2026

   Our readingThe idea that AI can become sentient or conscious is ill-founded.

   Their wordsMy baseline assumption for some time has been that the idea that AI can become sentient or conscious (at least in the ways humans and [some/other/many] non human beings are) is ill-founded.

   ↗Sounding Offfullofnoises.substack.com 1st of 2 in this piece

3. 31 May 2026

   Our readingWhether AI can really become sentient is fast becoming almost beside the point, because AI that seems conscious is already here.

   Their wordsI realise my assumption may be wrong, and that things change, but right now it looks as if the question of whether or not AI is actually capable of becoming sentient, and if so how far along that road things may be, is fast becoming (almost) beside the point.

   ↗Sounding Offfullofnoises.substack.com 2nd of 2 in this piece