> Gettier's conception of knowledge as justified true belief (prob familiar to many philosophy undergraduates) implies that machines can't in fact accrue knowledge.

Ha. Gettier actually argued that justified true belief is insufficient for knowledge, not that machines can't possess it. And JTB doesn't inherently exclude machines.

Interestingly, research suggests LLMs encode truthfulness in their internal representations: https://aclanthology.org/2023.findings-emnlp.68/