If AI systems are seen as advanced to control, companies that build them can’t held liable for the harms they cause.

For some theories of consciousness, such as displaying complex cognitive abilities, LLM s score a lot higher than the ...

We don’t care for others because they’re conscious. We believe they’re conscious because we care about them, argues Blaise ...

Despite Anthropic’s claims, Claude is no more likely to achieve sentience than a simulation of a weather system is likely to generate a real hurricane, says Anil Seth, professor of cognitive and compu ...

At the Berggruen Institute, consciousness is not just a topic but a profound human quest. This initiative assembles a diverse ...

Researchers believe other species could help explain the mysterious origins of our consciousness. One new paper argues that consciousness evolved in distinct waves from environmental pressures, like a ...

These are good times to be a thinking, conscious creature, despite events in the world that might make us doubt that. These are even better times to be a creature who thinks about consciousness: the ...

Over 100 scientists and philosophers recently decried a leading consciousness theory as pseudoscience in an open letter, sparking a debate about the challenges of probing such a profound enigma.

What gives rise to human consciousness? Are some parts of the brain more important than others? Scientists began tackling these questions in more depth about 35 years ago. Researchers have made ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Andréa Morris reports on emergent intelligence in diverse systems. Last year, scientists inferentially detected the existence of ...

What if our puzzlement about consciousness is itself a clue? A physicist turns the hard problem into a striking argument ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Science routinely puts forward theories, then batters them with data till only one is left standing. In the fledgling science of ...