And he argued that AI agents would be incapable of consciousness, due to the way that their hardware is built. Koch subscribes to a model for consciousness known as integrated information theory.

The team’s research— published today in Nature Human Behaviour—found that the AI was 64.4% more persuasive than human ...

When provided basic demographic information on their opponents, AI chatbots adapted their arguments and became more ...

When given information about its human opponents, the large language model GPT-4 was able to make particularly convincing ...

AI developers are starting to talk about ‘welfare’ and ‘spirituality’, raising old questions about the inner lives of ...

Some commentators draw comparisons with the debate over animal welfare and ... creating a verbal facade that resembles human consciousness. But AI critics argue that this attractive storefront ...

Debate centers on whether conscious AI should have personhood status. Experts are divided on AI consciousness and its implications for rights. In an era of rapid advancements in artificial ...

Research aiming to answer the great mystery of how consciousness arises is continuing to spark debate, with arguments over ...

Is it possible for artificial intelligence (AI) to become conscious? What is the “mind-body” problem of explaining consciousness, and how does the theory of the Kabbalah of Information ...