Ask HN: Have recent AI breakthroughs made you question existence of free will?

3 amichail 3 7/30/2025, 1:59:25 PM

Doesn't modern AI make it clear that free will isn't necessary for intelligent, human-like behavior?

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JohnFen · 22h ago

No, it has had no impact on my opinions about free will.

> Doesn't modern AI make it clear that free will isn't necessary for intelligent, human-like behavior?

Not at all.

haniehz · 21h ago

Watching LLMs mimic reasoning so well definitely makes you wonder how much of our own thinking is just pattern prediction with extra steps.

incomingpain · 21h ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markov_chain

It's not AI. It's Markov chains that essentially prove no free will.

AI partially uses these but not significantly. So AI isnt what makes me question.

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