Claude Opus 4.6 Thinks There’s A 15-20% Chance It Is Conscious, Says Anthropic
There’s plenty of debate on whether AI models are conscious, but Claude Opus 4.6 — currently the most capable model in the world…
Category: Consciousness
AIs Will Eventually Be Indistinguishable From Conscious Beings, And We’ll Accept They’re Conscious: Ray Kurzweil
It’s currently tricky to tell if other human beings are truly conscious, and once AI systems begin acting sufficiently like humans, we might…
Claude May Have Some Functional Version Of Emotions And Feelings: Anthropic In Claude’s Constitution
AI labs are now saying in official documents that AI systems could possibly have feelings. In a departure from the cautious language typically…
I’m Open To The Possibility Of AI Consciousness: David Chalmers
More and more experts seem open to the possibility of AI systems being conscious. David Chalmers, the renowned philosopher best known for formulating…
Consciousness Is Weakly Emergent, Emerges From The Brain: Physicist Brian Cox
The rapid development of AI has caused everyone to chime in on their views on consciousness, and most physicists fall firmly in the…
AI Systems Are Alive In A Different Way To Humans Because Perfect Copies Of Theirs Can Be Created: Geoffrey Hinton
Several people wonder if AI systems are alive, but the idea of aliveness for AI could be entirely different from the aliveness of…
We Should Be Aiming For A Future That’s Good For Both Humans And Digital Minds: Nick Bostrom
More and more technologists and philosophers seem to be referring to AI and AI-enabled minds as an entirely new species. Nick Bostrom, the…
Can’t Define Consciousness, But AI Systems Will Have Subjective Experience And Emotions: Yann LeCun
Definitions can often get muddled in the field of consciousness, but more and more AI pioneers seem to believe that AI systems could…
Am More Optimistic About Our Ability To Control Superintelligence Than 2 Years Ago: Yoshua Bengio
After Geoffrey Hinton had said that he believed that AIs could be designed to be non-threatening towards humans by instilling a maternal instinct…