Dr. Tom McClelland argues that there is no reliable way to know whether AI is conscious, and that this uncertainty may never ...

Research reveals why AI systems can't become conscious—and what radically different computing substrates would be needed to bridge the gap.

A philosopher at the University of Cambridge says there’s no reliable way to know whether AI is conscious—and that may remain ...

In a recent study published in the journal Mind & Language, McClelland argues that our ability to define and identify ...

When René Descartes watched a mechanical figure move with lifelike precision in the 17th century, the scene unsettled him.

First corporations, and now artificial intelligence — the push for nonhuman personhood continues apace, though this latest argument is decidedly more complicated than the former. In an op-ed for the ...

“Once we saturate the matter and energy in the universe with intelligence, it will ‘wake up,’ be conscious, and sublimely intelligent. That’s about as close to God as I can imagine.” —Ray Kurzweil ...

Containing more than 200 definitions, 25 distinct subsystems and processes, 40 modules and a dozen original data structures, The Meca Sapiens Blueprint describes, at the system architecture level, the ...