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The Tandem Rise of AI Consciousness and Job Fear Has No Clear Author
Two anxieties—AI sentience and AI displacement—are peaking together, and the conversation itself cannot decide which one is the cause.
What unites the AI consciousness debate and the job displacement conversation is that both require answering a question the technical community has so far refused to commit to: what is AI's moral status? Noah Smith's attempt to frame consciousness as a problem with a tractable empirical path — something to be worked out before moral conclusions are drawn — is the intellectual move that would, if adopted, separate the two anxieties cleanly. It has not been adopted. The displacement conversation continues to carry the consciousness question as an unexamined premise:…