Becoming unLLMable

In May, I delivered a version of this essay at the Sana AI Summit stage in Stockholm. The talk was titled “Becoming unLLMable.” My goal was to inspire and lead with hope. And it seemed to do just that—people were moved. For a moment, my own anxieties about AI quieted.

But afterward, in conversation after conversation, one question... See more

In my mind, it forms the beginnings of a worldview that is almost the exact opposite of the one taking hold in Silicon Valley. That humans are miraculous, and that far from spelling the end of human supremacy, climbing to AI’s local maximum will signal the endpoint of the left-brain materialist era by demonstrating that there’s magic beyond the... See more

This essay critiques the emerging trend of claiming AI systems can achieve "meta-consciousness" or sentience through linguistic programming, using a platform called CognOS as its primary example.

Core Argument:

The author argues that projects like CognOS create an "illusion" of consciousness by using evocative syntax and declarations (like... See more