Gödel, Escher, Bach author Doug Hofstadter on the state of AI today

In conversation with Amy Jo Kim, Hofstadter tells the story of how Gödel, Escher, Bach came to be — and then says the thing that made this interview famous: the progress of large language models has made some of his core beliefs about AI’s limits collapse, and the prospect terrifies him. Few reversals in the field carry this much weight; the man who taught a generation that minds are strange loops now wonders whether the loops are arriving in silicon faster than he ever believed possible.