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 ...

From Jan Farrell, Chair, The Francis Bacon Debate Society; Chief Executive, Brethil Investment; Advisor, AIXI Safety Lab, Madrid, Spain ...

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 ...

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 ...

Emotions may be a necessary ingredient to bring about a truly conscious AI, some scientists believe. A tech company is working on creating “micro-emotions” within AI to see how it effects their ...

The debate over AI consciousness is back. Mustafa Suleyman, a leading AI executive, recently said that “seemingly conscious AI” is on the horizon. These are systems that, through ongoing enhancements ...

As science wrestles with the thorny job of proving, defining and understanding human consciousness, one pioneering startup aims to apply cutting-edge theories of consciousness to AI models – and ...

In Part I of this article, we began exploring the dilemmas of machine consciousness through the lens of the HBO hit series, Westworld. This inevitably leads to many questions: Is it actually possible ...

FROM C-3PO of Star Wars to Wall-E, the sentient garbage collector, the prevalence of conscious machines in the stories we tell seems to reflect humanity’s deep desire to turn creator and design an ...