{"id":44354,"date":"2026-02-25T11:54:13","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T16:54:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=44354"},"modified":"2026-02-25T11:54:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T16:54:13","slug":"ai-will-never-be-conscious","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=44354","title":{"rendered":"AI Will Never Be Conscious"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/book-excerpt-a-world-appears-michael-pollan\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Book-Excerpt-AI-Will-Never-Be-Conscious-Culture-1472259484.jpg\" alt=\"\" style=\"width:263px;height:auto\"\/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>In his new book, \u201cA World Appears,\u201d Michael Pollan argues that artificial intelligence can do many things\u2014it just can\u2019t be a person.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/book-excerpt-a-world-appears-michael-pollan\/\">AI Will Never Be Conscious<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>fta: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>When I posed the suffering\u2011computer conundrum to a researcher seeking to build a conscious AI, he waved away the problem, explaining it could be offset with a simple fix to the algorithm: \u201c<strong><em>There\u2019s no reason we couldn\u2019t just turn up the dial on joy.<\/em><\/strong>\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In his new book, \u201cA World Appears,\u201d Michael Pollan argues that artificial&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[282],"tags":[2087,91,1289,723],"class_list":["post-44354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article","tag-agi","tag-ai","tag-conciousness","tag-whoa","wpcat-282-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44354"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44354\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44357,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44354\/revisions\/44357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}