Anthropic: Could AI be conscious? Pope Leo: lol, no
‘Algorithms lack the spark of humanity’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9VCWgoIrRCo&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video
https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20261005-anthropic-could-ai-be-conscious-pope-leo-lol-no - podcast
time: 7 min 58 sec
https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/10/05/anthropic-could-ai-be-conscious-pope-leo-lol-no/ - blog post
@davidgerard when the AI crowd (or the genuine cognitive science crowd rather than the folks who’ve pivoted from NFTs and crypto to LLMs) can actually explain and measure cognition and consciousness at sufficient resolution they can stop fucking off into the sea but LLMs are Not It.