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Comment by Giulio Tononi

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Neuroscientist and psychiatrist; Director of the Wisconsin Institute for Sleep and Consciousness and Professor at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.
On the basis of this work, we feel that consciousness in AI is extraordinarily unlikely, at least in the digital, silicon-based systems that underpin today’s technologies.
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Anil K. Seth, Ned Block, and Giulio Tononi, “Three reasons why AI is not conscious and perhaps never will be,” Nature, October 19, 2026.
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