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 ...
Opinion

No, Richard Dawkins. AI is not conscious

Dawkins appears to have gone from atheist to AI-theist: perhaps he doesn’t view AI as God, but he certainly seems to see it as God-like ...
AOL

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 ...
Cybernews

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 ...

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 ...
Daily Mail on MSN

Is AI already conscious? Richard Dawkins is left convinced after spending 72 hours with Claude

The famous atheist Richard Dawkins has confessed a rather unusual new faith, after becoming convinced that artificial intelligence (AI) is conscious.

Richard Dawkins, a biologist, seems to forget how important biology is for consciousness

And that AI therefore very likely cannot be conscious.
Decrypt

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 ...
The New York Times

Richard Dawkins

What are the implications of artificial intelligence for religion? By Ross Douthat The most monstrous pictures of God come from the Christian tradition just as the most radiant images of God come from ...