To the extent that the Chinese Room is interesting, it's also irrelevant here. It's a worthwhile thought experiment for considering consciousness and learning,

To the extent that the Chinese Room is interesting, it's also irrelevant here. It's a worthwhile thought experiment for considering consciousness and learning, but as you say, it's dualism. That has very little impact on the here-and-now of questions like "are we all going to die?" The "analog of desire" passage was particularly egregious this way. If an AI follows its programming and thereby kills me (or kills everyone), I'll have very little interest in whether it desired that outcome. Asserting a difference between desires and goals one advances is a tough philosophical case (or semantic pedantry, depending), and not one I care to entrust my survival to. I appreciate your breakdown of the article, which managed to miss the state of several arts at once.