Why AI Doesn’t Think, Cannot Reason, Isn’t Intelligent and Will Never Achieve Consciousness
July 6, 2026 Why AI Doesn’t Think, Cannot Reason, Isn’t Intelligent and Will Never Achieve Consciousness Rob Urie Facebook Twitter Reddit Bluesky Email Poster for Fritz Lang’s Metropolis (detail). Recent public comments made about AI suggest that Americans have difficulty with the implications of linear time. This is odd given that its conception is largely Western and is centered on the clock time used to coordinate capitalist employment. The conceptual difficulty regards sequencing, or plans for future actions. But it also involves the distribution of profits. 100% of the capital equipment used in Western economic production was produced by workers. So, why does the resulting product belong to financiers rather than those who produced it? To use a physical metaphor, if I 1) buy a car, 2) aim it in the direction of a cliff, 3) put a stone on the gas pedal, and 4) put the transmission into drive, the car will move forward and plunge off the cliff. Question: Did I, through my actio...
