In rethinking whether AI is sentient, we are asking bigger questions about cognition, human-machine interaction and even our own consciousness ...

Many top professionals and leaders may feel uneasy about AI. Here’s why—and what it reveals about human intelligence.

An image generated by prompts to Google Gemini. (Courtesy of Joe Nalven) This column was composed in part by incorporating responses from a large-language model, a type of artificial intelligence ...

Could AI already be conscious? A philosopher warns we can't detect AI sentience, raising urgent ethical questions about a ...

Do we actually know what consciousness is? Dr Victoria Trumbull thinks we need to ponder this more before claiming AI ...

More and more experts seem open to the possibility of AI systems being conscious. David Chalmers, the renowned philosopher ...

In several interviews (like this one with Anderson Cooper), Geoffrey Hinton, the Nobel Prize-winning "godfather of AI," has defended the view that we must give maternal feelings to artificial ...

As a journalist who covers AI, I hear from countless people who seem utterly convinced that ChatGPT, Claude, or some other chatbot has achieved “sentience.” Or “consciousness.” Or—my personal favorite ...

Socrates would have warned that overrelying on artificial intelligence for answers risks dulling the human mind and ...

AI is ubiquitous now—from interpreting medical results to driving cars, not to mention answering every question under the sun as we search for information online. But how do we know it is safe to use, ...

Six CFR fellows examine the challenges that lie ahead, reviewing how governance, adoption, and geopolitical competition will ...

Ed Zitron is an AI skeptic. He’s the CEO of EZPR, a media and public relations company and he hosts the Better Offline Podcast with iHeartRadio and Cool Zone Media. His book Why Everything Stopped ...