Human beings have enjoyed a unique and lonely role among intelligences. Do other minds exist in life's other kingdoms? With ...

Consciousness, in contrast, is about states of being—seeing the blue sky, hearing birds chirp, feeling pain, being in love. For an AI to run amok, it doesn’t matter one iota whether it feels ...

The pursuit of artificial awareness may be humankind’s next moonshot. But it comes with a host of difficult questions. A robot prototype being developed by Yuhang Hu, a doctoral student in the ...

Irshad Ahmad Mughal and Dr. Qurat ul Ain Rana  The domination of human consciousness by artificial intelligence and the relentless overflow of ...

They argued that while artificial intelligence (AI) may face intrinsic and extrinsic limitations in emulating human consciousness, drawing upon the brain's complex structural and functional ...

This paper in OSF delves into whether artificial intelligence (AI) systems could achieve consciousness, challenging assumptions like computational functionalism and substrate neutrality. It argues ...

Hanson is equally committed to working on AGI and artificial consciousness. “We can’t wait 100 years, or we’re going to be out of luck, out of time.

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 ...

Inasmuch as consciousness and the mind need life—which, in turn, necessitates metabolism—human-level artificial consciousness or conscious AI is impossible.

Sigal Samuel is a senior reporter for Vox’s Future Perfect and co-host of the Future Perfect podcast. She writes primarily about the future of consciousness, tracking advances in artificial ...