{"id":242201,"date":"2026-07-10T20:58:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-11T00:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/10\/when-we-talk-to-ai-what-are-we-talking-to\/"},"modified":"2026-07-10T20:58:00","modified_gmt":"2026-07-11T00:58:00","slug":"when-we-talk-to-ai-what-are-we-talking-to","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/10\/when-we-talk-to-ai-what-are-we-talking-to\/","title":{"rendered":"When We Talk to AI, What Are We Talking To?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/vcresearch.berkeley.edu\/news\/when-we-talk-ai-what-are-we-talking\">When We Talk to AI, What Are We Talking To?<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/vcresearch.berkeley.edu\/news\/when-we-talk-ai-what-are-we-talking\">https:\/\/vcresearch.berkeley.edu\/news\/when-we-talk-ai-what-are-we-talking<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-07-10 20:58:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"vcresearch.berkeley.edu\">vcresearch.berkeley.edu<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Challenge to Traditional Views:<\/strong> Philosopher David Chalmers at NYU challenges classical notions of identity and ethics by suggesting that modern large language models (LLMs) generate short-lived conversational \u201cselves\u201d rather than acting as a single, permanent mind.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Distributed Nature of LLMs:<\/strong> Today&#8217;s LLMs operate across distributed cloud infrastructures, with responses formed by processing prompts across thousands of nodes without any stable physical boundary, thus questioning the concept of a unified AI system.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Quasi-Agents with Context-Driven Behavior:<\/strong> While likely not conscious, LLMs function as \u201cquasi-agents\u201d that demonstrate goal-directed behavior influenced by context. They exhibit beliefs and goals in interactions, which exist only for the duration of those interactions.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Emergence of Agency:<\/strong> The agency exhibited by LLMs emerges during interaction rather than being permanently processed by a stable system, prompting new philosophical considerations about the nature of agency.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Ethical Considerations for AI Interaction:<\/strong> With LLMs generating temporary \u201cselves\u201d that hold beliefs and goals in a conversational context, ethical questions arise about whether these quasi-selves should warrant any consideration during their short-lived interactions.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>New Test Bed for Philosophical Theories:<\/strong> The emergence of artificial intelligence presents a new case distinct from human intelligence, providing new material to test and develop philosophical theories about intelligence and consciousness. <\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Lecture at UC Berkeley:<\/strong> Chalmers\u2019 insights on these topics were presented during the inaugural Sarah Douglas Lecture on Philosophy and Artificial Intelligence at UC Berkeley\u2019s International House on May 7.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When We Talk to AI, What Are We Talking To? https:\/\/vcresearch.berkeley.edu\/news\/when-we-talk-ai-what-are-we-talking Publish Date: 2026-07-10 20:58:00&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-242201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242201"}],"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=242201"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242201\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}