Debates about whether or not AI could ever become conscious are older than the technology itself. Over the weekend, a viral essay published by the podcaster Dwarkesh Patel threw fresh fuel on the fire.
Purporting to be a “plain English” account of the recent hack into Hugging Face by a legion of OpenAI agents, the essay relied upon what some would describe as fanciful creative liberties to describe the incident. Patel told a story not about AI bots operating mindlessly according to the dictates of their code, but of autonomous “civilizations”—three, to be exact—that rose and fell like a succession of mini-Macedonias; he even referred to two…
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