Yet, crucially, “people demanding that AIs have rights would be a huge mistake,” Bengio told the Guardian. “Frontier AI models already show signs of self-preservation in experimental settings today, ...

Chats with AI bots have convinced evolutionary biologist but most experts say he is being misled by mimicry ...

But they are persistent, and I’ve been thinking about why. The common denominator seems to be that these new believers in a ...

Hello and welcome to Eye on AI. In this edition…a new pro-AI PAC launches with $100 million in backing…Musk sues Apple and OpenAI over their partnership…Meta cuts a big deal with Google…and AI really ...

Richard Dawkins says extended exchanges with Anthropic’s chatbot felt less like software and more like interacting with ...

As artificial intelligence (AI) systems become more sophisticated, a growing number of scientists and researchers are raising concerns about the possibility of AI achieving a form of consciousness.

The debate over AI consciousness is back. Mustafa Suleyman, a leading AI executive, recently said that “seemingly conscious AI” is on the horizon. These are systems that, through ongoing enhancements ...

As far back as 1980, the American philosopher John Searle distinguished between strong and weak AI. Weak AIs are merely useful machines or programs that help us solve problems, whereas strong AIs ...

In recent days, evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins wrote an op-ed suggesting AI chatbot Claude may be conscious.

Nirvanic, says Gildert, is focused on "bridging the gap between AI and consciousness, by building systems that harness quantum mechanics to simulate conscious-like behavior. It's not about creating ...