Beyond spirited dinner party debate, establishing which creatures have consciousness matters in terms of animal welfare and conservation policy. A Michigan State University philosophy scholar has ...

We don’t care for others because they’re conscious. We believe they’re conscious because we care about them, argues Blaise Agüera y Arcas ...

The hard fact is that we do not understand consciousness. Not in humans, not in animals, and not in machines.

But two new papers on the possibility of consciousness in animals and AI suggest new theories for how to test this—one that strikes a middle ground between sensationalism and knee-jerk skepticism ...

The question of whether artificial intelligence will ever achieve true consciousness remains one of the most captivating debates in science and technology. As AI systems become increasingly ...

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.

As AI—and the ethical debate surrounding it—accelerates, scientists argue that understanding consciousness is now more urgent than ever. They argue that explaining how consciousness arises—which could ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Maya Ackerman. In 2022, a Google engineer claimed one of the company's AIs was sentient. He lost his job, but the story stuck. For ...