Even if GPT models and other LLMs are creative in the sense of producing novel outputs, we should not grant them consciousness or moral status without deliberate engineering to target our emotions through humanoid design (voices, facial expressions, etc.); systems must be evaluated on substance rather than intuitive appeal.

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Speaker

Steven Pinker

Evidence Quote

unless the system has been deliberately engineered to Target our emotions with humanoid light tonal voices and facial expressions and so on it's not clear that our intuition wouldn't be this is just a uh a machine

Source

David Deutsch & Steven Pinker (First Ever Public Dialogue) — AGI, P(Doom), & The Enemies of ProgressJoseph Noel Walker
Created: 8/12/2026, 10:21:48 PM

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