The AI-sentience conversation was recently elevated in the Anthropic-War Department controversy. Much of it centered on ...

AI consciousness researcher Henry Shevlin found himself on the receiving end of an unsolicited email from a chatbot on the Moltbook platform, a message that described the system’s own “experience” in ...

New book from Oaklea Connects the AI Consciousness Debate to the “central mystery of mind” & cites evidence consciousness may ...

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 ...

That's how Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman described Moltbook, a Reddit-style forum built entirely for bots. In a LinkedIn post on Monday, Suleyman said MoltBook is a powerful demonstration of how ...

Philosophy and theology are now joined by machine intelligence in shining a light on what is human.

An image generated by prompts to Google Gemini. (Courtesy of Joe Nalven) This column was composed in part by incorporating responses from a large-language model, a type of artificial intelligence ...

Ian Sample speaks to author and journalist Michael Pollan about his new book A World Appears: A Journey into Consciousness ...

AI models built on Anthropic’s most advanced systems are learning to reason, reflect on and express how they think -- but only about 20% of the time. In certain circumstances during tests, the models ...

As artificial intelligence becomes embedded across the financial services value chain, a recurring question surfaces in boardrooms and leadership forums: Does AI have consciousness? The ...