This very well may be one of the most important moral debates!

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei has publicly acknowledged that the possibility of consciousness in Claude, the company’s flagship AI model, cannot be dismissed outright. The statement, made in a New York ...

Researchers propose that the key to identifying consciousness in animals and AI lies in understanding how their information processing systems work.

Michael Pollan tells Scientific American why the science of consciousness may ultimately be too subject to our own conscious ...

Michael Pollan explores theories of consciousness in animals, plants and machines, examining the “hard problem” of subjective experience in his new book “A World Appears”.

Theorists of consciousness generally focus on sensation – what it's like to, say, experience the color red. Yet what we call the stream of consciousness offers a much richer and more complex blend of ...

If you buy something using links in our stories, we may earn a commission. This helps support our journalism. Learn more. The turning point came in the summer of 2023, when a group of 19 leading ...

For many researchers, however, the idea that today's AI could be conscious remains highly speculative.