I think the "human needs" point is understated here. It would be better to say agents do not really have a self-contained metabolic engine that is required to keep going. Which bubbles up as that what we interpret as "drive", "will", "agency"... basically the will to live, and being willing to do _a lot_ to live if push comes to shove. We can't really identify a mechanism of similar complexity and integration in agents or LLMs. I think the article correctly points into that direction.
But Hans Jonas has made this point much better than the article or me, in "Critique of Cybernetics" (1953). PDF: <a href="https://s3.amazonaws.com/arena-attachments/892605/f0747c7943bec99f4891969d4a808ecd.pdf" rel="nofollow">https://s3.amazonaws.com/arena-attachments/892605/f0747c7943...
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But Hans Jonas has made this point much better than the article or me, in "Critique of Cybernetics" (1953). PDF: <a href="https://s3.amazonaws.com/arena-attachments/892605/f0747c7943bec99f4891969d4a808ecd.pdf" rel="nofollow">https://s3.amazonaws.com/arena-attachments/892605/f0747c7943...