The man has wasted his precious time on earth trying to explain the meaning of life without accepting the existence of the soul. It makes total sense that he can be fooled by AI nonsense.

To be 85 and lack basic wisdom is quite an astonishing achievement.

I'll read this later. I've added it to my favorites. I'm a big fan of Dawkins.

It's been clear for a long time now that Dawkins was never actually very skeptical; he likes taking contrary positions based on spite more than reason, as can be seen from his increasing adoption of the religion he used to rail against [1].

At this point, 'person who is popularly thought to be intelligent thinks AI is conscious' should make you question the first part, not endorse the second.

[1] https://ewtn.co.uk/article-famous-atheist-richard-dawkins-sa...