
The myth of machine consciousness makes Narcissus of us all
The idea that AI can be conscious is a mistake. It’s just a very shiny mirror of humanity, reflecting what we want to see
by David Bentley Hart
David Bentley Hart is a scholar of religion, and a philosopher, writer, author of fiction, and cultural commentator, currently a research associate at the University of Notre Dame, and his latest books are You Are Gods: On Nature and Supernature (2022) and Tradition and Apocalypse: An Essay on the Future of Christian Belief (2022). His Substack publication is Leaves in the Wind.