Noga Arikha on AI might become conscious

Noga Arikha

Historian of science; author

But until we replicate the embodied emotional being—a feat I don't believe we can achieve—our machines will continue to serve as occasional analogies for thought.

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AI Verified The quote clearly implies opposition to the statement. The author says truly replicating an 'embodied emotional being' is something they 'don't believe we can achieve,' and therefore machines will remain only 'analogies for thought,' not genuinely conscious beings. · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 12d ago

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AI Verified The quote says replicating an "embodied emotional being" is "a feat I don't believe we can achieve," and that until then "our machines will continue to serve as occasional analogies for thought," which clearly argues against AI becoming conscious. · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 12d ago

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AI Verified Edge.org’s 2015 annual-question page, “What Do You Think About Machines That Think?”, includes this sentence verbatim and attributes the response “Metarepresentation” to Noga Arikha; the dedicated Edge response-detail page for that contribution contains the same wording. The supplied URL does contain the quote, and the stored year 2015 matches the annual-question year. ([edge.org](https://www.edge.org/responses/what-do-you-think-about-machines-that-think)) · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 12d ago

Disputed The quote is correctly attributed to Noga Arikha on Edge’s 2015 “What Do You Think About Machines That Think?” page, and the provided Edge URL includes her response. However, the sentence on the page does not end where your quote ends; it continues with the omitted words “and to evolve according to our needs.” Because that omission is not marked with [...], the version you provided is not verbatim. ([edge.org](https://www.edge.org/responses/what-do-you-think-about-machines-that-think)) · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 14d ago

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