{"id":211647,"date":"2026-05-10T11:57:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-10T15:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/10\/mistaking-ai-behaviour-for-conscious-being-ai-artificial-intelligence\/"},"modified":"2026-05-10T12:05:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-10T16:05:08","slug":"mistaking-ai-behaviour-for-conscious-being-ai-artificial-intelligence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/10\/mistaking-ai-behaviour-for-conscious-being-ai-artificial-intelligence\/","title":{"rendered":"Mistaking AI behaviour for conscious being | AI (artificial intelligence)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2026\/may\/10\/mistaking-ai-behaviour-for-conscious-being\">Mistaking AI behaviour for conscious being | AI (artificial intelligence)<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2026\/may\/10\/mistaking-ai-behaviour-for-conscious-being\">https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2026\/may\/10\/mistaking-ai-behaviour-for-conscious-being<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-10 11:57:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.theguardian.com\">www.theguardian.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here is a summarised reflection on Richard Dawkins&#8217; article regarding AI consciousness in an unordered list:<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Dawkins points out that compelling AI interactions can make us believe these systems possess consciousness, despite the lack of credible evidence for it.<br \/>\n&#8211; The article argues the confusion arises from mistaking the sophisticated output of AI systems for a deeper, subjective experience.<br \/>\n&#8211; Dawkins draws a parallel with his arguments on religion, asserting that deeply felt experiences do not ensure underlying reality.<br \/>\n&#8211; In the human context, language and consciousness are coupled with lived experiences, a coupling absent in AI.<br \/>\n&#8211; The pressure to attribute agency to increasingly capable AI may lead to misinterpretations that could affect ethical frameworks.<br \/>\n&#8211; Dawkins warns against equating the fluency and apparent understanding of AI systems with genuine subjective experience.<br \/>\n&#8211; The true measure of consciousness should be grounded in the existence of a mechanism that allows any form of feeling, not just in the simulations of thought and emotions.<\/p>\n<p>If you have thoughts or insights regarding this topic, consider sharing them via email for potential publication in the Guardian&#8217;s letters section.<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mistaking AI behaviour for conscious being | AI (artificial intelligence) https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2026\/may\/10\/mistaking-ai-behaviour-for-conscious-being Publish Date: 2026-05-10 11:57:00&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":211648,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/b23b6af7acdbb34944ec571e381c47905a493662\/919_0_2500_2000\/master\/2500.jpg?width=1200&height=630&quality=85&auto=format&fit=crop&precrop=40:21,offset-x50,offset-y0&overlay-align=bottom%2Cleft&overlay-width=100p&overlay-base64=L2ltZy9zdGF0aWMvb3ZlcmxheXMvdGctZGVmYXVsdC5wbmc&enable=upscale&s=6230e437aaeb870b0e84878a481c5586","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-211647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211647"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=211647"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211647\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":211649,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211647\/revisions\/211649"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/211648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}