Besides, the debate on oracularizing AI is much more fun than endlessly debating the meaning of consciousness. People place plenty of trust in astrology, tarot

Besides, the debate on oracularizing AI is much more fun than endlessly debating the meaning of consciousness. People place plenty of trust in astrology, tarot, and I Ching without requiring they have an subjective experience. If anything, there's a tendency of technologists to have a blind spot identifying AI as such. The dismissal and sometimes contempt held for divination makes it genuinely difficult to recognize it when it's not decked out in stars and moons. It's interesting if anything that the Barnum principle applies in both cases.