Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Maya Ackerman. (Courtesy of Maya Ackerman) In 2022, a Google engineer claimed one of the company’s AIs was sentient. He lost his ...

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 ...

My fascination with AI led to my recent book, Digital Dharma, and the root of my fascination has to do with the possibility that AI can raise a person’s level of awareness. Artificial intelligence ...

Google DeepMind has hired an in-house philosopher to explore the boundaries of machine consciousness and ethics. This move ...

The rapid advancement of AI models is inextricably linked to questions regarding machine consciousness. Some even predict ...

Google DeepMind has hired Cambridge researcher Henry Shevlin as an in-house Philosopher to work on machine consciousness and ...

Large Language Models have emerged as both curious and transformative forces in the science of artificial intelligence, prompting a reevaluation of fundamental questions concerning the nature of ...

Artificial intelligence now writes code, drafts legal memos, and chats in fluent paragraphs, yet the most unsettling question about these systems sits just out of reach: do any of them actually feel ...

As artificial intelligence (AI) becomes more and more integrated into society, two divergent narratives have captured the public imagination. On one end of the spectrum, the "AI apocalypse" scenario ...

In 2022, a Google engineer claimed one of the company’s AIs was sentient. He lost his job, but the story stuck. For a brief moment, questions of machine consciousness spilled out of science fiction ...