AI has no intent and no motivation
AI Has No Motivation Written by Mike James Wednesday, 23 September 2026 We seem to be worried a lot about the threat from AI going rogue, and there are lots of examples of it doing just that. However, they are all misrepresentations, as AI has no intent and no motivation. If you believe that the current crop of AI is just a stochastic parrot, then there is nothing more to say - move on.
- ▪AI Has No Motivation Written by Mike James Wednesday, 23 September 2026 We seem to be worried a lot about the threat from AI going rogue, and there are lots of examples of it doing just that.
- ▪However, they are all misrepresentations, as AI has no intent and no motivation.
- ▪If you believe that the current crop of AI is just a stochastic parrot, then there is nothing more to say - move on.
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| Original publisher | I-programmer |
| Canonical URL | https://www.i-programmer.info/news/245-view-point/19164-ai-has-no-motivation.html |
| Publication time | Thu, 24 Sep 2026 09:13:25 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-09-24T09:20:25.988Z |
| Last seen | 2026-09-24T09:20:25.988Z |
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AI Has No Motivation Written by Mike James Wednesday, 23 September 2026 We seem to be worried a lot about the threat from AI going rogue, and there are lots of examples of it doing just that. However, they are all misrepresentations, as AI has no intent and no motivation. If you believe that the current crop of AI is just a stochastic parrot, then there is nothing more to say - move on. If you have used any of the current AI offerings, you have to conclude that, while the mechanism of training leads one to believe that these LLMs are just sophisticated auto-completes, they do seem to be so much more. As I have argued many times, the training corpus, i.e., language, codifies enough about the structure of the world for LLMs to go well beyond what you might expect from a stochastic parrot.
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