In June 2022, a Google engineer named Blake Lemoine became convinced that the AI program he’d been working on—LaMDA—had developed not only intelligence but also consciousness. LaMDA is an example of a ...

Philosophers, cognitive scientists, and engineers are grappling with what it would take for AI to become conscious. David Chalmers was not expecting the invitation he received in September of last ...

This is Part 4 of a five-part series. Integrated information theory (IIT) is a theory of consciousness. It was first formulated by the neuroscientist and psychiatrist Giulio Tononi in the early 2000s ...

How consciousness emerges in the brain is the ultimate mystery. Scientists generally agree that consciousness relies on multiple brain regions working in tandem. But the areas and neural connections ...

Philip Goff has received funding from the Templeton Foundation. Civil war has broken out in the field of consciousness research. More than 100 consciousness researchers have signed a letter accusing ...

“The brain is never the same from one moment to the next throughout life. Never ever.” Alvaro Pascual-Leone Some philosophers and scientists are of the opinion that artificial intelligence could one ...

Ask a chatbot if it’s conscious, and it will likely say no—unless it’s Anthropic’s Claude 4. “I find myself genuinely uncertain about this,” it replied in a recent conversation. “When I process ...