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Joscha Bach says an LLM can produce even a very complicated tax return without conscious experience of producing it.

Unresolved speaker · Why Leibniz Couldn't Find the Mind Inside the Mill (Joscha Bach) · 2 Nov 2026

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“But for, uh, many of the things that we currently observe, for instance, you can get the LLM to produce a tax return, even very, very complicated things, while being a zombie, while not having conscious experience of producing a tax return.”
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