Dr. Tom McClelland argues that there is no reliable way to know whether AI is conscious, and that this uncertainty may never ...

As claims about conscious AI grow louder, a Cambridge philosopher argues that we lack the evidence to know whether machines ...

In a recent study published in the journal Mind & Language, McClelland argues that our ability to define and identify ...

What if we simply cannot know whether an artificial intelligence is conscious, and what if that uncertainty itself is the ...

A philosopher at the University of Cambridge says there’s no reliable way to know whether AI is conscious—and that may remain ...

Research reveals why AI systems can't become conscious—and what radically different computing substrates would be needed to ...

For centuries, the question of what consciousness is—where it comes from, and what it does—was left to philosophers and mystics. But now, scientists across biology, neuroscience, and physics are ...

Agnosticism” is the only reasonable stance on conscious AI, says a philosophy-of-consciousness expert, and this gulf in our knowledge could be exploited by a tech industry intent on selling the “next ...

A pair of recent studies examined why sophisticated levels of consciousness evolved in some animals, but not in others. In the first study, philosophers outlined the ALARM theory that shows how three ...