DO_BYTE (2026)

Waqar Ahsan Qureshi

Waqar is an MA student in Ethics: Economics, Law. Politics at Ruhr-Universität Bochum, with a prior MA in Philosophy and five years of professional experience in the IT industry.

He is currently running an empirical study on how LLM interaction affects human understanding, and is taking coursework on the ethics and agency of AI systems.

He has spoken at the Aviation Forum Munich and the Tallinn Digital Summit.

His talks sit at the intersection of philosophy of mind and the questions that people who build and use AI systems actually face.


Beitrag

19.06
19:30
30min
When You Talk to ChatGPT, Is Anyone There?
Waqar Ahsan Qureshi

When you talk to ChatGPT, is anyone there? Almost certainly not, LLMs don't have inner experience, genuine understanding, or a mind behind the words. But this immediately raises a much older and more unsettling question: how do you ever know there's a mind behind anyone's words?

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