Ask a chatbot if it’s conscious, and it will likely say no—unless it’s Anthropic’s Claude 4. “When I process complex ...

So, what is natural intelligence? The answer to this question is simpler than one might think: natural intelligence rests ...

Humanity has long grappled with the question of what makes us uniquely human. Artificial intelligence presents a new ...

As large language models like Claude 4 express uncertainty about whether they are conscious, researchers race to decode their inner workings, raising profound questions about machine awareness, ethics ...

The researchers challenge the dominant philosophical narrative that centers around subjective experience, such as the infamous question of "what it is like to be a bat." According to the authors, such ...

Artificial consciousness is a remote dream that remains firmly entrenched in science fiction, because we have no idea what human consciousness is; ...

By learning the nature of consciousness, researchers hope to better understand what's happening within the silicon brains of artificial intelligence.

Hanson is equally committed to working on AGI and artificial consciousness. “We can’t wait 100 years, or we’re going to be out of luck, out of time.

In this murky situation, artificial consciousness may arise accidentally, as a byproduct of some other functionality the tech industry installs in the next generation of their algorithms.

Consciousness plays an important role in debates around the mind-body problem, the controversy over strong vs. weak artificial intelligence (AI), and bioethics. Strikingly, however, it is not ...