What Francis Fukuyama thinks about consciousness

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American political scientist, author of The End of History and the Last Man (1992) and the memoir In the Realm of the Last Man (2026); Olivier Nomellini Senior Fellow at Stanford University. Writes the Frankly Fukuyama column at Persuasion.

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1. 21 Sept 2026

   Our readingAn AI needs neither consciousness nor intentionality of its own to become dangerous.

   Their wordsThese speculations are misplaced, however: an AI does not need either consciousness or autonomous intentionality to become dangerous.

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