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

Consciousness may emerge not from code, but from the way living brains physically compute.

Consciousness has long resisted neat explanations, but a growing body of research suggests the problem may lie in how we ...

Advanced forms of artificial intelligence may already be displaying glimmers of consciousness, according to leading computer scientists. MIT researcher Tamay Besiroglu joined OpenAI cofounder Ilya ...

Letters: We should take AI risks seriously, but doing so requires conceptual clarity, says Prof Virginia Dignum. Plus letters from John Robinson and Eric Skidmore ...

Last week, Google put one of its engineers on administrative leave after he claimed to have encountered machine sentience on a dialogue agent named LaMDA. Because machine sentience is a staple of the ...

A new theoretical framework argues that the long-standing split between computational functionalism and biological naturalism misses how real brains actually compute.

Dr. Karl Friston is a distinguished computational psychiatrist, neuroscientist, and pioneer of modern neuroimaging and, now, AI. He is a leading expert on intelligence, natural as well as artificial.

I'm compressing the argument as a starting point but please make sure to look at the counterarguments listed in the second half of my article because chances are your objections have already been ...

It is a new year with new possibilities and new aspirations. It is also time for us as educators to reset, prioritize and set ...