From Ted Chiang’s essay;
“Whenever a person delegates a decision to an LLM, they are trying to off-load accountability for that decision, and if a company that sells an LLM portrays the product as having a moral center, it is offering a way for its customers to abdicate their responsibilities.”
I think it’s more dangerous than that.
Cults work because many folks find it emotionally and cognitively easier to hand over their moral agency and responsibility. The pull operates at a deep level.
quotingNO, ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE IS NOT CONSCIOUS
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Taken to its logical conclusion, this line of thinking is absurd—and damning.
By Ted Chiang
https://www.theatlantic.com/philosophy/2026/06/no-artificial-intelligence-is-not-conscious/687378/