The Atheist and the Machine God

In another potential future, the mystery of consciousness ends up seeming more profound in the shadow of machine intelligence ...
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Richard Dawkins on New Threats to Science—From Religion to Relativism

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 ...

Richard Dawkins concludes AI is conscious, even if it doesn’t know it

Chats with AI bots have convinced evolutionary biologist but most experts say he is being misled by mimicry ...
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Atheist evolutionary scientist talked to Anthropic’s Claude for 72 hours and now believes it's conscious

An evolutionary biologist, sworn atheist, and author of The God Delusion claims that AI possesses consciousness after ...
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Claude Delusion? Richard Dawkins Believes AI May Be Conscious

Richard Dawkins says extended exchanges with Anthropic’s chatbot felt less like software and more like interacting with ...
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Science in the soul : selected writings of a passionate rationalist / Richard Dawkins ; edited by Gillian Somerscales

Author's introduction -- Editor's introduction -- I. The value(s) of science. The values of science and the science of values ; Speaking up for science : an open letter to Prince Charles ; Science and ...