A philosopher at the University of Cambridge says there’s no reliable way to know whether AI is conscious—and that may remain true for the foreseeable future. According to Dr. Tom McClelland, ...

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In June 2022, a Google engineer named Blake Lemoine became convinced that the AI program he’d been working on—LaMDA—had developed not only intelligence but also consciousness. LaMDA is an example of a ...

Amanda Askell, Anthropic’s in-house philosopher, is sounding pretty conflicted about whether AI models can be conscious and have feelings. The flip side of that: she thinks it’s a possibility they ...

As artificial intelligence (AI) systems become more sophisticated, a growing number of scientists and researchers are raising concerns about the possibility of AI achieving a form of consciousness.

The human brain is a relentless processor of sensory information, yet only a small fraction of this input reaches the level of conscious awareness. The ...

Everyone knows AIs are dangerous. Everyone knows they can rattle off breakthroughs in wildlife tracking and protein folding before lunch, put half the workforce out of a job by supper, and fake enough ...

When the head of one of the world's leading AI companies says he cannot rule out the possibility that his chatbot might one day be conscious, it inevitably raises eyebrows. In a recent interview with ...

The science of consciousness has not lived up to expectations. Over the summer, the neuroscientist Christof Koch conceded defeat on his 25-year bet with the philosopher David Chalmers, a lost wager ...