As claims about conscious AI grow louder, a Cambridge philosopher argues that we lack the evidence to know whether machines ...

Dr. Tom McClelland argues that there is no reliable way to know whether AI is conscious, and that this uncertainty may never ...

When René Descartes watched a mechanical figure move with lifelike precision in the 17th century, the scene unsettled him.

Research reveals why AI systems can't become conscious—and what radically different computing substrates would be needed to ...

Advanced forms of artificial intelligence may already be displaying glimmers of consciousness, according to leading computer scientists. MIT researcher Tamay Besiroglu joined OpenAI cofounder Ilya ...

In this video, we explore various aspects of artificial intelligence and consciousness, discussing: - AI in science fiction ...

A philosopher at the University of Cambridge says there’s no reliable way to know whether AI is conscious—and that may remain ...

Last week, Google put one of its engineers on administrative leave after he claimed to have encountered machine sentience on a dialogue agent named LaMDA. Because machine sentience is a staple of the ...

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.

I'm compressing the argument as a starting point but please make sure to look at the counterarguments listed in the second half of my article because chances are your objections have already been ...