The AI Consciousness Question is So Annoying

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• Core argument: whether current or near-future AI systems are conscious/sentient is a question we have no reliable method to even investigate, let alone answer — and that epistemic gap gets glossed over by confident claims on both sides.
• Frames the “annoying” part as structural: the question keeps getting raised (about chatbots, agents, etc.) without any agreed test for consciousness even in principle.
• Takeaway: treat strong claims that AI is (or definitely isn’t) conscious as unsupported — the honest position right now is “we don’t know how we’d know.”