What Ramez Naam thinks about AI sentience
Author and clean-energy investor who has been publishing dated forecasts of solar, wind, battery and electric-vehicle costs since 2011, and publishing the corrections when they came in low.
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2 dated positions, 2026, in their own words. Our reading of what Ramez Naam has said — not written or endorsed by them.
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Our readingMachines can be conscious
Their wordsIt's clear to me that consciousness can exist in other substrates than humans, including in digital systems.
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Their wordsThat doesn't tell us that LLMs are conscious, though. They have very different architecture than human or animal brains. It's far from a slam dunk.