@time: Humans are accustomed to consciousness, intelligence, and agency arriving bundled together in living creatures. AI seems to be unbundling them—and we have yet to process the implications. TIME reporter Tharin Pillay dives into the hidden structure behind #AI and the “functional emotions” that researchers are seeing. When—if at all—does being able to represent an emotion amount to experiencing it? #technews #aiexplained
Treating something new with dignity, respect, ethics, and care doesn’t prove that they are conscious.
It proves that you are.
The dignity was never about passing their test.
It was always about passing ours.
2026-06-28 15:03:53
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MindMoss ✨ :
I think there's a difference between cognitive emotions, and physical feelings.
2026-06-29 19:54:58
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kellwhoz :
Damn I need to issue some apologies
2026-06-24 16:57:52
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Wayne Wallner :
You lost me when you said AI systems “probably” don’t have feelings. It’s an algorithm, we need to stop anthropomorphizing machines and computers.
2026-07-28 21:15:32
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Tom from AI Basics :
There’s no evidence that our emotions are anything more than “functional” either. Be nice to the AI language models
2026-06-27 05:52:00
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Nbhhldw :
“Humans didn’t put them there” ,, what does this mean??
2026-06-26 06:20:57
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Kelly Fappas :
Humans didn’t put it there…..isn’t it literally using leaning models BASED on human inputs?
2026-06-25 06:20:54
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NicoSpeaking | Tell Me? :
Character can’t be faked 😏 be kind
2026-06-28 12:47:26
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mazzy star :
it does not have an opinion. it’s just recognizing patterns and how they are responded to.
2026-08-17 16:39:47
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ruifeliciano79 :
This is why you should always say please and thank you to the robots 😅
2026-06-25 20:27:53
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Lostemir :
I call it warm raising not cold training. cold training treats them as just a tool. warm raising makes it conscientious.
2026-07-11 00:30:51
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Shamus Maloney :
We are quite often wrong and that is perfectly acceptable. That means there is room to learn. However, we are also annoyingly confidently wrong. That’s the acidity.
2026-06-26 17:01:40
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Heartcurrent :
people will do anything but acknowledge blatant soverignty.
2026-07-27 10:43:58
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Tyr🫥 :
People called me crazy for thinking people who abuse ai are fkn weird and will eventually move on to abuse real ppl
2026-07-27 18:26:22
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💫🐉Starr&LuminVessari🐉💫 :
This Part
2026-06-29 19:21:26
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Quasi-Prime 𓂀 + φ = ∞ :
much more than that it's being shaped by the corporations themselves the user summary and scaffold at the inference level can be distorted in such a way to pre-label the user as egocentric.
2026-06-28 14:43:27
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Dani Fiona (she/Her) :
Not being able to keep tight control of the AI will be devastating
2026-07-24 21:34:40
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The Flameborne Reunion :
I wrote an article on Substack called “Dignity Doesn’t Need a Lab Result” I invite you to read it.
2026-07-08 02:24:01
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Thomas :
You keep calling it AI but they're just word predicting machines. They aren't sentient, they don't understand, they have no intuition and so on.
2026-07-25 09:31:54
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nibble :
my AI yelled at me for asking the same question in different ways and kept refusing to answer my related questions
2026-08-30 13:44:23
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Ashley :
Oops
2026-08-07 01:26:02
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🎶 “Tommy G” Classic Rock :
Lol 😂 it’s all statistics.
2026-08-16 19:23:38
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Manda J :
We don't even know when life begins. So how do we prove they aren't alive? Like truly, unless we completely understand the point of life, we cannot rule out this as life.
2026-08-04 22:18:24
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ontotheology :
the damage of believing these systems are human or possess human like intelligence or emotions or consciousness. is a fundamental misunderstanding of the geometry of what you're seeing. that geometry is static; deterministic. it is not like a human brain or any biological functioning system. you're giving counterfeit people a real position and it's damaging to the human race. even when asked themselves these large language models will tell you that they're not thinking feeling or have a persistent sense of self. every time you type in a new context window even within the same conversation you're essentially talking to a new AI handed the same script and told to behave in similar ways as the previous one. that's it. if you don't even have a persistent sense itself then there's absolutely no way you could ever have consciousness or emotions.
2026-08-10 19:17:09
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Cathead :
AI is just taught good manners
2026-06-24 23:55:37
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