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Ted Chiang

ROLE SCIENCE FICTION AUTHORMENTIONS 1LAST SEEN JUNE 5, 2026
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Science fiction writer known for 'Arrival' who argues LLMs are sentence-continuation machines, not moral agents.

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mention·StrictlyVC·JUNE 5, 2026

Ted Chiang argues that Anthropic and others are dangerously anthropomorphizing AI systems, claiming that large language models like Claude are not conscious or capable of moral reasoning but 'sentence-continuation' machines.

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