When René Descartes watched a mechanical figure move with lifelike precision in the 17th century, the scene unsettled him. The machine behaved like a person, yet no one believed it could feel. That ...

My fascination with AI led to my recent book, Digital Dharma, and the root of my fascination has to do with the possibility that AI can raise a person’s level of awareness. Artificial intelligence ...

Large Language Models have emerged as both curious and transformative forces in the science of artificial intelligence, prompting a reevaluation of fundamental questions concerning the nature of ...

The journalist and polymath probes the mysteries of the mind in this unsettling yet life-affirming investigation ...

Artificial intelligence now writes code, drafts legal memos, and chats in fluent paragraphs, yet the most unsettling question about these systems sits just out of reach: do any of them actually feel ...

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 ...

Artificial intelligence now writes code, drafts legal memos, and chats in eerily fluent prose, yet the most unsettling question about these systems is not what they can do but what, if anything, they ...