After recently writing about Singularity in this column, I felt it was time to address the elephant in the room – the difference between Artificial Intelligence and Human Consciousness in the Age of ...

This very well may be one of the most important moral debates!

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei has publicly acknowledged that the possibility of consciousness in Claude, the company’s flagship ...

Theorists of consciousness generally focus on sensation – what it's like to, say, experience the color red. Yet what we call ...

Researchers propose that the key to identifying consciousness in animals and AI lies in understanding how their information processing systems work.

An intriguing hypothesis suggests that human consciousness may respond to the Earth's natural electromagnetic pulse.

Michael Pollan explores theories of consciousness in animals, plants and machines, examining the “hard problem” of subjective ...

If you buy something using links in our stories, we may earn a commission. This helps support our journalism. Learn more. The turning point came in the summer of 2023, when a group of 19 leading ...

For many researchers, however, the idea that today's AI could be conscious remains highly speculative.