For those curious more about what Ted Chiang and James Yu think about AI, you can listen to the audio recording of our Commonwealth Club event from a few months ago here:
www.commonwealthclub.org/events/archi...
🚨🚨🚨 new Ted Chiang on AI just dropped 🚨🚨🚨https://www.theatlantic.com/philosophy/2026/06/no-artificial-intelligence-is-not-conscious/687378/?gift=1ga2TvL-DbuHDQIcYF7oR7CsNA92bD_yo6VqlH7-uco&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share
Taken to its logical conclusion, this line of thinking is absurd—and damning.