Sapience without Sentience: An Inferentialist Approach to LLMs

This is a forthcoming paper of mine that I thought might be of interest to people here. Here's the Do large language models (LLMs) possess concepts, such that they can be counted as genuinely understanding what they're saying? In this paper, I approach this question through an inferentialist account of concept possession, according to which one's possession of a concept is understood in terms of one's mastery of the inferential role of a linguistic expression. I suggest that