Michael Pollan tells Scientific American why the science of consciousness may ultimately be too subject to our own conscious ...

For many researchers, however, the idea that today's AI could be conscious remains highly speculative.

Theorists of consciousness generally focus on sensation – what it's like to, say, experience the color red. Yet what we call the stream of consciousness offers a much richer and more complex blend of ...

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei has publicly acknowledged that the possibility of consciousness in Claude, the company’s flagship AI model, cannot be dismissed outright. The statement, made in a New York ...

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 ...

Christof Koch is a meritorious investigator at the Allen Institute in Seattle, Washington, and the chief scientist of the Tiny Blue Dot Foundation in Santa Monica, California. Humans and other animals ...