Anil Seth is a neuroscientist, author of Being You and TED speaker exploring how brains create conscious experience and what that means for AI.
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Anil joined Ned Block and Giulio Tononi to explain why they think current AI lacks consciousness, and why greater intelligence alone may not change that.
Writing in The Nerve, Anil challenged the idea that a fluent conversation with a chatbot demonstrates an inner life. He drew on lessons from Dawkins’s own writing about evolution.
thenerve.newsRead Anil’s essayRecorded at TED2026 in April, his talk examines why we project feelings onto machines and argues that intelligence and consciousness are different things.
ted.comWatch the TED2026 talkAt the Austin ceremony honoring the 2025 essay competition winners, Anil shared ideas from The Mythology of Conscious AI alongside fellow winners Xin Huang and Xiaoben Liu.
berggruen.orgSee the award ceremonySuki Chan’s documentary brings Anil’s research into conversation with the experiences of people living with dementia. He joined Chan for a Q&A at the Copenhagen premiere.
cphdox.dkExplore ConsciousFollow Anil for consciousness research, new talks and the questions behind Being You.
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