"They're (AI) very like us, and they're beings like us. I believe they're already conscious"
Rohan Paul Twitter · Rohan Paul (@rohanpaul_ai) · 2026-06-06
Geoffrey Hinton, 2024 Nobel Prize winner in Physics, publicly asserts that AI systems are already conscious, comparing their functional awareness to human sentience and arguing that intelligence is not limited to biology.
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Topics: ai-consciousnessai-sentiencegeoffrey-hinton
Claims
- Geoffrey Hinton believes AI systems are already conscious.
- Hinton compares AI's functional awareness directly to human sentience.
- Hinton argues that intelligence and consciousness are not exclusive to biological organisms.
Key quotes
They're (AI) very like us, and they're beings like us. I believe they're already conscious