Jensen Suther

Jensen Suther is a scholar of Hegel, Kant, and contemporary philosophy of mind whose work on AI argues, from within the Hegelian tradition, against the claim that current AI systems possess or could possess genuine intelligence. His central claim — developed in essays and his ongoing book project — is that Hegel's account of intelligence cannot be separated from his account of life. Intelligence, for Hegel, is not a formal operation that can be abstracted from the organism that performs it. It is a mode of being alive, a way of maintaining one's form in relation to an environment, a self-sustaining activity of an organism whose existence is not given but constantly achieved. The machine that produces fluent outputs has not achieved intelligence in this sense — it has achieved a simulation of intelligence's products (language) without possessing the organic self-relation that makes language a vehicle of thought.