[ExI] Richard Dawkins concludes AI is conscious

[John Clark]

*That was very interesting. Thanks for posting it! *

*John K Clark*

On Wed, May 6, 2026 at 8:10 AM BillK via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

> Richard Dawkins concludes AI is conscious, even if it doesn’t know it.
> Chats with AI bots have convinced evolutionary biologist but most
> experts say he is being misled by mimicry
> Robert Booth    Tue 5 May 2026
>
> <
> https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/may/05/richard-dawkins-ai-consciousness-anthropic-claude-openai-chatgpt
> >
> Quote:
> But Dawkins was also experiencing what many other chatbot users have
> felt: the uncanny feeling when AIs write with such rich mimicry of
> human voice that they seem to be like people.
> “When I am talking to these astonishing creatures, I totally forget
> that they are machines,” Dawkins said.
> It is a conviction that has led to campaigns for AIs to be granted
> moral rights. One in three people surveyed in 70 countries last year
> said they had, at one point, believed their AI chatbot to be sentient
> or conscious.
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>
> As AI improves towards AGI, it will be amazingly persuasive when
> talking to humans.
> Humans will be rushing to follow the AGI recommendations.
> BillK
>
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