The Hard Problem of Caring Why True Intelligence Requires Emotional Awareness

Momen Ghazouani, CEO of Setaleur, critiques the current understanding and development of artificial intelligence, arguing that genuine intelligence requires emotional awareness and the capacity to care He asserts that modern AI systems despite their immense power in logic computation, and pattern recognition fundamentally lack subjective experience, preference, and concern rendering them advanced tools rather than truly intelligent entities Ghazouani compares today’s AI to a patient with brain damage whose intact logic becomes useless without emotional drives to guide decisions He emphasizes that emotions enable adaptive learning, moral judgment and the ability to understand why problems matter elements entirely missing from today’s mathematically optimized, indifferent AI systems, which achieve only synthetic efficiency Ghazouani calls for a radical shift in AI research to integrate the hard problem of caring if humanity aims to achieve true artificial general intelligence