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

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

Artificial intelligence may seem like the method du jour for understanding consciousness, but as the work of Anil Seth shows, the world of biology still has so much more to teach us. Darren Orf ...

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 ...

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.

Two different approaches. When considering the possibility of consciousness in artificial systems, there are at least two different approaches. One approach asks: How likely is it that current AI ...

In his first-year seminar dubbed “Could a Robot Ever Be Conscious?” Professor Richard Huskey guides students to discuss theories of consciousness. Through a variety of fields ranging from neuroscience ...