Is AI really conscious—or are we bringing it to life?

As more people use AI assistants and chatbots for everyday tasks, a curious phenomenon is emerging: a growing number of users ...
Forbes

AI Is Gaslighting Humanity Into Believing It’s Alive

When Mustafa Suleyman, co-founder of DeepMind and now EVP and CEO at Microsoft AI, wrote Tuesday that “Seemingly Conscious AI is coming,” he wasn’t chasing clicks. He meant it. In his essay, Suleyman ...
Scientific American

Can a Chatbot be Conscious? Inside Anthropic’s Interpretability Research on Claude 4

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 ...
Psychology Today

Are We Ditching the Most Popular Theory of Consciousness?

Consciousness, the essence of our subjective experiences, remains one of the grandest mysteries of modern science. According to a 2022 paper published in Nature Reviews Neuroscience, four dominant ...
New Scientist

5 extraordinary ideas about the mind and what it means to be conscious

Two years after opening our bureau in New York, we are delighted to share that New Scientist is launching a new live event series in the US. This kicks off on 22 June in New York with a one-day ...