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Is AI Already Conscious? Google’s Blaise Agüera y Arcas Explains

aired Oct 12, 2026 · 91.0m
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Summary

What I've arrived at over the last few years is essentially the sense that life defined functionally includes a lot of technology as well.

Why listen

It goes beyond the title with direct discussion of know, like, it's, including: I'm dismayed that we've lost our fundamental sense of optimism and ability to at least equally well imagine brilliant futures relative to catastrophes.

Key takeaways
  1. 01We need to talk about whether AI is truly intelligent, if AGI is already here, and why the greatest threat to humanity may not be AI, but our narratives about the future
  2. 02And what's the relationship of that to intelligence, if any?
  3. 03And the reason for that comes from work that, I mean, it has a longer lineage, but the thing that really convinced me is work from my team from Paradigms of Intelligence on the pro
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