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AI systems should be approached as engineered, intelligent tools; claims that they have consciousness or emotions may be true, but those concepts are difficult to define precisely.

Misha Laskin · Beam: The Great American Open Model with ReflectionAI Co-Founder and CEO Misha Laskin · 9 Oct 2026

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“But we have to take the perspective that these are, these are engineered tools,”
“you know, there's, I think that there is a certain class of, you know, companies or researchers who claim that,”
“Things around consciousness or emotions so far to which is maybe true,”
“but it's so hard to define what those things are in particular that it's it's unclear what it is. So I think that thinking about these is like intelligent tools and having like a yeah, just like a reality sort of spectrum. And so while I think that the theoretical doomsday stuff is good.”
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