Google DeepMind Scientist Says AI Will Never Be Conscious, No Matter How Powerful—Here's Why

Alexander Lerchner, a senior scientist at Google DeepMind, is pushing back hard against the idea that we'll ever create conscious AI, even if we wait 100 years. He calls the whole thing the 'Abstraction Fallacy'—basically, people assume that because AI can process information and seem intelligent, it must eventually become conscious. But Lerchner argues that's a fundamental misunderstanding of how these systems actually work. It's a pretty bold take in a field where everyone's obsessed with scaling up models bigger and bigger, assuming consciousness will just... happen eventually. Worth reading if you're tired of the hype around AI becoming sentient.