Philosophy and theology are now joined by machine intelligence in shining a light on what is human.

After recently writing about Singularity in this column, I felt it was time to address the elephant in the room – the difference between Artificial Intelligence and Human Consciousness in the Age of ...

Ian Sample speaks to author and journalist Michael Pollan about his new book A World Appears: A Journey into Consciousness ...

A program to which users attribute human characteristics can manipulate them much more easily.” –Andrzej Porębski, MD ...

New book from Oaklea Connects the AI Consciousness Debate to the “central mystery of mind” & cites evidence consciousness may be a fundamental aspect of reality This is not a rejection of science.

Of the 800m people using ChatGPT every week, only a vanishingly small number will have seriously considered whether ChatGPT might have experiences worth caring about. AI welfare — the project of ...

As science wrestles with the thorny job of proving, defining and understanding human consciousness, one pioneering startup aims to apply cutting-edge theories of consciousness to AI models – and ...

Could artificial intelligence (AI) become conscious? What used to be a philosophical “thought experiment” is now a real-world conundrum. AI’s explosive development, especially the Large Language ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Dr. Lance B. Eliot is a world-renowned AI scientist and consultant. Just about everyone seems to have a potent opinion about ...

Consciousness, and the ways in which it can become impaired after certain brain injuries, are not well understood, making ...

One of the most resonant questions in the debate over artificial intelligence and consciousness comes from philosopher David Chalmers, who framed what he called the "Hard Problem of Consciousness." ...