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‘Superintelligent Zombies' by Justin Tiehen and Ariela Tubert

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"Superintelligent Zombies' by Justin Tiehen and Ariela Tubert", published in the Journal of Consciousness Studies, Volume 33, issue 7-8. It is hard to say with any certainty what the exact relationship is between intelligence and consciousness, and so hard to say whether systems that achieve artificial superintelligence (ASI) would be conscious. We are attracted to the view that they probably won’t be: they will be superintelligent zombies. This is because we find it plausible that there is a kind of negative correlation between intelligence and consciousness such that across all physically possible systems, those that are capable of at least human-level intelligence will tend not to be conscious, and furthermore, the very most intelligent of such systems are the least likely to be conscious.
August 28, 2026 at 2:01 PM