The discovery has reignited arguments over what really counts as machine consciousness ...

Anthropic found an intriguing inner working element of modern LLMs. Does this give light to the advent of AI consciousness.

Anthropic’s new Claude research reveals a hidden internal “global workspace” that resembles human conscious processing, ...

Artificial intelligence can process information with remarkable sophistication, but can it ever possess consciousness?

Daniel Hulme is a global AI expert. He tells us about studying AI on a two-person course 27 years ago, and meeting Elon Musk ...

At least nine U.S. state legislatures have introduced or enacted laws declaring that artificial intelligence (AI) systems ...

Four years after firing an engineer who claimed an AI system had become conscious, Google is researching how it could happen.

Psychology, psychoanalysis, Buddhism, and other speculative paradigms such as shamanism, panpsychism, and collective ...

Anthropic researchers found Claude was more willing to resort to blackmail in a simulated test after they removed its ...

Paul Tremblay’s novels explore grief and belonging; they delve into the maudlin world of the dead and of the end of the world. Now the acclaimed horror writer trains his gaze on a new monstrosity: the ...