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If an AI can't decide what to want, can it ever be truly conscious?

Traditional software runs on meanings its programmers define, while LLMs interpret meaning for themselves. That makes them flexible but fallible: they can misread a prompt and seem to "go rogue." Even then, they aren't choosing a new purpose. They are pursuing someone else's goal, badly. Humans dif…

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  1. 2026-10-09 23:17 · r/artificial
    If an AI can't decide what to want, can it ever be truly conscious?

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