In another potential future, the mystery of consciousness ends up seeming more profound in the shadow of machine intelligence ...

Few living thinkers have been as influential—or controversial—as Richard Dawkins. An evolutionary biologist by training, Dawkins rose to prominence with his 1976 book The Selfish Gene, which ...

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An evolutionary biologist, sworn atheist, and author of The God Delusion claims that AI possesses consciousness after ...

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Richard Dawkins has said chatbots should be considered conscious after spending two days interacting with the Claude AI ...

Richard Dawkins says extended exchanges with Anthropic’s chatbot felt less like software and more like interacting with ...

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A religious quest can still be a rational undertaking — not a leap into pure mystery. By Ross Douthat Fear that culture will be made obsolete by artificial intelligence is not an overestimation of ...