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Comment by Robert Long
Philosopher and Executive Director of Eleos AI, researcher on AI consciousness and moral status
Rob Long cautions against dismissing the idea that AI has a mind on the basis that it is “just” crunching numbers. By the same logic, he argues, you could say biological entities are “just replicating proteins.”Disputed (Jan 22, 2026)
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TIME contains this as journalist narration about Rob Long, not a verbatim quotation by him; the stored text is misattributed as his quote. Source: https://time.com/7355855/ai-mind-philosophy/
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Hector Perez Arenas
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