Whether AI is conscious sounds like a yes-or-no question. It also sounds like a test of whether we owe AI anything. Both assumptions may be wrong.

Letter: Artificial intelligence systems won’t become conscious for the same reason they won’t become pregnant, says Dr John Pickering ...

Despite Anthropic’s claims, Claude is no more likely to achieve sentience than a simulation of a weather system is likely to generate a real hurricane, says Anil Seth, professor of cognitive and compu ...

When René Descartes watched a mechanical figure move with lifelike precision in the 17th century, the scene unsettled him. The machine behaved like a person, yet no one believed it could feel. That ...

Dr. Karl Friston is a distinguished computational psychiatrist, neuroscientist, and pioneer of modern neuroimaging and, now, AI. He is a leading expert on intelligence, natural as well as artificial.

Advances in artificial intelligence are making it increasingly difficult to distinguish between uniquely human behaviors and those that can be replicated by machines. Should artificial general ...

The idea of AI sentience is drawing more focus to consciousness science. But some researchers aren’t sure that’s a good thing.

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Human consciousness took billions of years to evolve, but in the next 10 to 15 years, it may have company in the form of synthetic intelligence. A ...

Thus, she believes Nirvanic's work on artificial consciousness could make an impact on organic consciousness in two key ways. "One is in trying to understand ways in which we can improve people's ...

As I've previously discussed, epistemic uncertainty around artificial consciousness is no longer cheap. However, what should we do differently because of that uncertainty? This isn't about declaring ...