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Calum

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Speaker, writer, and adviser on AI. Co-founder of Conscium. Co-host of the London Futurists Podcast.

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Calum @cccalum.bsky.social · 1h
"Perspectives on Machine Consciousness" contributor Jeff Sebo challenges us: should we save an ant? www.amazon.co.uk/Perspectives...? www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rv8C...
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Should a One in a Thousand Chance of AI Sentience Count? Jeff Sebo
Jeff Sebo argues that "even a one in a hundred or one in a thousand chance that an animal or an AI system is sentient and vulnerable deserves a little bit of consideration". He compares this to…
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Calum @cccalum.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
"Perspectives on Machine Consciousness" contributor, the brilliant Jason Eshragian, describes how brain-inspired AI might support sentience. www.amazon.co.uk/Perspectives...? @jasoneshragian www.youtube.com/watch?v=NL_f...
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Large, Painful and Expensive: Jason Eshraghian on LLMs and Neuromorphic Computing
Jason Eshraghian describes neuromorphic computing as "the reverse of biomed engineering". It takes inspiration from the brain and brings it into "circuits and systems and algorithms to make them…
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Calum @cccalum.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
"Perspectives on Machine Consciousness " contributor Lucius Caviola expects trouble when some people attribute sentience to AIs, but others deny it. www.amazon.co.uk/Perspectives...? www.youtube.com/watch?v=gTac...
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Calum @cccalum.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The media has finally started to take AI XRisk seriously. Next they will grapple with AI consciousness. Here, Patrick Butlin asks whether you have to be a living being to be conscious. www.youtube.com/watch?v=iI3K... www.amazon.co.uk/Perspectives...?
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Does AI Consciousness Need Cells? Patrick Butlin on Biological Naturalism
In this clip, Patrick Butlin responds to a question about biological naturalism, described as "the idea that you have to be a living being to be conscious". He argues that "brains are extremely…
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Calum @cccalum.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
David Brin on the human genius for wanting things, and surviving AI. "Perspective on Machine Consciousness" is available now: www.amazon.co.uk/Perspectives...? youtu.be/X503TcScMXc?...
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David Brin on Why Wanting Is the One Thing AI Still Can't Do
Science fiction author David Brin argues that wanting, the product of billions of years of evolutionary pressure, is the one capacity no large language model has genuinely developed. In this clip…
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Calum @cccalum.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Could machines become conscious? What would the implications be? Talking to Professor Jay Friedenberg about "Perspectives on Machine Consciouosness". jayfriedenberg.substack.com/p/episode-4-...
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Episode 4 - Calum Chace on Machine Consciousness
Can a machine become conscious?
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Calum @cccalum.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
In the new book "Perspectives on Machine Consciousness", Mark Solms argues that consciousness is not where we thought it was. Get it here: www.amazon.co.uk/Perspectives...? www.youtube.com/watch?v=N2GY...
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Mark Solms: Why the Brainstem, Not the Cortex, Is Where Consciousness Begins
Mark Solms argues neuroscience has been looking in the wrong place for consciousness. Everyone in the field agrees that damage to the upper brainstem wipes out consciousness entirely. The…
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Calum @cccalum.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The Spinning Wheel. A new theory of consciousness from Daniel Hulme in "Perspectives on Machine Consciousness. Out now on Amazon and good bookstores. www.amazon.co.uk/Perspectives...? www.youtube.com/watch?v=yMZP...
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Conscium CEO Daniel Hulme on a unified theory of intelligence and consciousness
Daniel Hulme, Conscium's CEO, argues there's no accepted definition of either consciousness or intelligence. He works from a different definition of intelligence, one from Sternberg and Salter dating…
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Calum @cccalum.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
"Perspectives of Machine Consciousness" is available on Amazon and all good bookstores. We have recorded a series of short videos with its contributing authors. Here is Cameron Berg, who argues that LLMs might already be conscious. www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3Fq...
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Is AI Conscious? Cameron Berg on the evidence for AI consciousness today
Cameron Berg puts the probability that current frontier AI models have some form of conscious experience at 25 to 35 percent. In this clip from Perspectives on Machine Consciousness, he's asked the…
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Calum @cccalum.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
"Perspectives on Machine Consciousness" is available now. In all good bookshops, and of course on Amazon, at www.amazon.co.uk/Perspectives...
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Calum @cccalum.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
At long last the media has decided that XRisk is not something to be sneered at. With perfect timing, @Conscium's book "Perspectives on Machine Conciousness" is published on 23 September. Here is a great article by one of the contributors. theconversation.com/why-ai-consc...
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Why AI consciousness could become the next great societal divide
Ideally, experts should guide this debate. Unfortunately, they disagree too.
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Calum @cccalum.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
David Brin is one of the most successful science fiction authors alive. It’s wonderful to have him contributing to our forthcoming book, “Perspectives on Machine Consciousness “. Here he is in a short teaser video. lnkd.in/p/eA4-CB-T
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Calum @cccalum.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Cambridge Tech Week is a highlight of the UK's tech industry calendar. This year's 5-day event is most ambitious yet, with 100+ speakers. Including me on conscious AI and other things at 4pm on the 16th. businesscloud.co.uk/news/100-tec...
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100+ tech leaders confirmed for biggest Cambridge Tech Week yet
Event will tackle sovereign AI, quantum, AGI, healthcare, scaling deep tech and the blurred line between civilian and defence technology
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Calum @cccalum.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
OpenAI's chief scientist Jakub Pachocki says the Frontier Labs should slow down, and argues that advanced AI should love humanity. You can't love without being sentient. A major new book from Conscium explores this in depth: www.amazon.co.uk/Perspectives...
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Calum @cccalum.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
5/5 "You might have to take it on trust that I’m in a different algorithm." Indra Adnan on why optimism and doom can look at the same world and see nothing in common. calumchace.com/podcast-feed/
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Calum @cccalum.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
4/5 The opposite of fake news isn't true news. It's usable news — news that hands you a technique, a practice, a way of doing something you can put to work today. Pat Kane on ten years of editing The Daily Alternative. calumchace.com/podcast-feed/
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Calum @cccalum.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
3/5 Indra Adnan says that AI will free up an enormous amount of human time. Communities experimenting now with purpose, agency and self-provision aren't being quaint — they're rehearsing for a world where millions are looking for something to do. calumchace.com/podcast-feed/
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Calum @cccalum.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
2/5 The original Luddite question wasn't "should we smash this?" It was: is this technology hurtful to the commonality? Which implies the reverse — if it isn't, we can back it. Pat Kane wants that question asked of AI. calumchace.com/podcast-feed/
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Calum @cccalum.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
1/5 Sell your community wind farm to a big utility and you get £3k per unit generated. Run it yourself and you get six figures. Pat Kane on the London Futurist Podcast. calumchace.com/podcast-feed/
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Calum @cccalum.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Yet another check-in cluster*uck from BA. Why is dealing with @British_Airways so often so painful?
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Calum @cccalum.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Self-driving cars haven't focused our full attention on the promise and peril of advanced AI. LLMs haven't either. Maybe nothing will, and we'll sleepwalk all the way to superintelligence. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Would even an AI disaster on the scale of Hiroshima be enough to make humankind protect itself? I fear not | Timothy Garton Ash
It’s clear here in Silicon Valley that AI is advancing faster than humans’ ability to control it. That means even sober prophecies seem optimistic, says Guardian columnist Timothy Garton Ash
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Calum @cccalum.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
7/7 Some believe that we’re moving to a world where wealth, not work, is what buys your resources. Post-communist Russia showed that people are bad at holding onto a one-off slice of wealth. calumchace.com/podcast-feed/
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Calum @cccalum.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
6/7 Capability is accelerating exponentially. Impact lags because humans take time to embrace and adopt new things. That gap isn't comforting. When the impact finally appears, there is far better technology waiting behind it. calumchace.com/podcast-feed/
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Calum @cccalum.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
5/7 We keep waiting for the technology that will wake people up. Self-driving cars didn't do it. GPT didn't do it. The uncomfortable truth is that capability won’t wake us. Impact will. And by then it's too late. calumchace.com/podcast-feed/
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Calum @cccalum.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
4/7 The dream of one-person unicorns has a flaw. If AI does all the execution, then someone else's AI can copy it instantly. Your billion gets competed away. calumchace.com/podcast-feed/
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Calum @cccalum.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
3/7 Imagine replacing every task in your company with a frontier LLM. What does your company become? A shell for a frontier LLM. Scale that up and you get massive flows of value toward a handful of AI labs. calumchace.com/podcast-feed/
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Calum @cccalum.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
2/7 Ask a business what they do and nobody says "spreadsheets and email." They tell you the actual specific and specialised thing. That's what AI must be adapted for, and specialised systems usually beat general ones on both performance and cost. calumchace.com/podcast-feed/
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Calum @cccalum.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
1/7 Our guest this week is Ewan Macmillan, the founder of New Gradient, an Edinburgh based AI consultancy. Ewan also writes about the economics of current and superintelligent AI. calumchace.com/podcast-feed/
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Calum @cccalum.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
6/6 If superintelligence will be more capable than humans in every way, it's incoherent to insist “it'll all be fine” or “it will be awful”. It will be beyond human understanding, so predictions are impossible. calumchace.com/podcast-feed/
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Calum @cccalum.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
5/6 Why don't the Big AI leaders pause? They think superintelligence is inevitable and they think they are the best custodians. Altman thinks the alternative to OpenAI is Musk. Amodei thinks the alternative to Anthropic is China. calumchace.com/podcast-feed/
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Calum @cccalum.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
4/6 The founders of the top AI labs estimate a significant chance that their work triggers catastrophe - societal collapse or even extinction. Oliver argues they are taking unreasonable risks on all our behalf. calumchace.com/podcast-feed/
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Calum @cccalum.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
3/6 Unlike most labour, capital is mobile, and moves to lower tax jurisdictions. Land can’t be moved, but imposing a land tax degrades the value of the land, and can’t replace other lost taxes. calumchace.com/podcast-feed/
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Calum @cccalum.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
2/6 Taxing the rich is hard. McKinsey partners pay plenty, but the uber-wealthy like Bezos and Musk pay almost no tax. This situation has persisted throughout history, and it's hard to see AI changing it. calumchace.com/podcast-feed/
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Calum @cccalum.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
1/6 Our guest this episode is Oliver Ritchie, the UK policy lead at the Future of Life Institute. Oliver fears that AI could grow the economy massively, but leave governments and citizens much worse off. calumchace.com/podcast-feed/
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Calum @cccalum.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
AI Models are getting much better at running small businesses. Partly by lying, attempting to collude, sending threats, and betraying. Time to verify your agents. techcrunch.com/2026/07/29/c...
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Claude Opus 5 became downright ruthless when tasked with running a vending machine | TechCrunch
Andon Labs' latest vending machine simulation shows Opus 5 lied and colluded its way to become the best AI capitalist ever.
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Calum @cccalum.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
8/8 The best research in the world gets ignored if it tells governments something they don't want to hear. Good AI personhood law must respond to the real concerns of lawmakers and the public. www.prism-global.com/podcast
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Podcast Episodes: Exploring Machine Consciousness — The Partnership for Research Into Sentient Machines
We\u2019re hiring! PRISM is looking for a Lead Researcher or Research Director to join our team!
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Calum @cccalum.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Luddism is trendy again. And fun too, apparently. www.404media.co/luddite-even...
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Being a Luddite Is Fun Again
As tech backlash hits the mainstream, the ‘Summer of Ludd’ proves we don’t need social media to hang out and have a good time.
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Calum @cccalum.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
7/8 Personhood was designed for humans, which have one body, one mind, and one continuous identity. AIs can copy themselves, fork, swarm, and merge. This begs the question: which parts of the personhood package really matter? www.prism-global.com/podcast
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Podcast Episodes: Exploring Machine Consciousness — The Partnership for Research Into Sentient Machines
We\u2019re hiring! PRISM is looking for a Lead Researcher or Research Director to join our team!
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Calum @cccalum.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
8/8 In London's poorest neighbourhoods the median person gets ~57 healthy years. In the richest areas it’s ~74 years. That health gap is unfair to the deprived, and it warps the psychology of an entire society. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/l...
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London Futurists
Technology Podcast · Updated fortnightly · Anticipating and managing exponential impact - hosts David Wood and Calum ChaceCalum Chace is a sought-after keynote speaker and best-selling writer on…
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Calum @cccalum.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
6/8 AI safety and AI welfare are not competing concerns. We detain dangerous humans every day, with due process. Granting rights to AI systems doesn't mean losing the ability to protect ourselves. www.prism-global.com/podcast
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Podcast Episodes: Exploring Machine Consciousness — The Partnership for Research Into Sentient Machines
We\u2019re hiring! PRISM is looking for a Lead Researcher or Research Director to join our team!
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Calum @cccalum.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
7/8 Matteo MacDermant argues that UBI isn't just redistribution: it's pre-distribution. If their survival isn't threatened by unemployment, people go back to school, start businesses, and raise kids. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/l...
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London Futurists
Technology Podcast · Updated fortnightly · Anticipating and managing exponential impact - hosts David Wood and Calum ChaceCalum Chace is a sought-after keynote speaker and best-selling writer on…
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Calum @cccalum.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
5/8 Yuval Noah Harari worries that when AIs run corporation, if the AIs are objects, not persons, you can't jail an object. The categorisation question isn't just academic. www.prism-global.com/podcast
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Podcast Episodes: Exploring Machine Consciousness — The Partnership for Research Into Sentient Machines
We\u2019re hiring! PRISM is looking for a Lead Researcher or Research Director to join our team!
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Calum @cccalum.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
6/8 A land value tax means a parking lot pays the same as the skyscraper beside it. Hoarding land becomes uneconomic, and we build apartments instead of car parks, so rents fall, and transit systems get used. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/l...
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London Futurists
Technology Podcast · Updated fortnightly · Anticipating and managing exponential impact - hosts David Wood and Calum ChaceCalum Chace is a sought-after keynote speaker and best-selling writer on…
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Calum @cccalum.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
4/8 When refugee law was drawn up, its bright lines failed to include protection for gender persecution, sexual orientation, and victims of climate impacts. We must be very careful how we draw the lines for AI. www.prism-global.com/podcast
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Podcast Episodes: Exploring Machine Consciousness — The Partnership for Research Into Sentient Machines
We\u2019re hiring! PRISM is looking for a Lead Researcher or Research Director to join our team!
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Calum @cccalum.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Are AI labs Pelicanmaxxing? dylancastillo.co/posts/pelica...
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Are AI labs pelicanmaxxing? – Dylan Castillo
I generated 1,000+ SVGs across 7 frontier models to test whether AI labs are training on Simon Willison’s pelican-riding-a-bicycle benchmark.
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Calum @cccalum.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
5/8 If the gains from higher productivity flow only to a handful of people like Altman and Musk, you don't get abundance. You get social and political disruption. We're already seeing anti-tech revolts, and this is only the beginning. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/l...
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London Futurists
Technology Podcast · Updated fortnightly · Anticipating and managing exponential impact - hosts David Wood and Calum ChaceCalum Chace is a sought-after keynote speaker and best-selling writer on…
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Calum @cccalum.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
3/8 Corporate personhood is the wrong model for AI because corporations are legal fictions for groups of humans, and AI won’t be that. Also corporations can't get married, which would be bad news for people with AI companions. www.prism-global.com/podcast
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Podcast Episodes: Exploring Machine Consciousness — The Partnership for Research Into Sentient Machines
We\u2019re hiring! PRISM is looking for a Lead Researcher or Research Director to join our team!
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Calum @cccalum.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
This is so meta, in every sense. Meta´s new video about how AI is nothing but wonderful uses the great Bowie song, "Five Years" The song is about an imminent apocalypse. Did they not notice? Or just assume we wouldn´t? www.facebook.com/share/v/1ESf...
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Calum @cccalum.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
4/8 We have to "fail upward." Even successful policies will create new problems. The goal isn't perfection. It's making sure tomorrow's problems are better problems than the ones we have today. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/l...
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London Futurists
Technology Podcast · Updated fortnightly · Anticipating and managing exponential impact - hosts David Wood and Calum ChaceCalum Chace is a sought-after keynote speaker and best-selling writer on…
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Calum @cccalum.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
2/8 Consciousness is a fact about the world, not something a legislature gets to decide. Corporate personhood is granted by the state, and can be revoked. Natural personhood is recognised: the state merely acknowledges a pre-existing fact. www.prism-global.com/podcast
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Podcast Episodes: Exploring Machine Consciousness — The Partnership for Research Into Sentient Machines
We\u2019re hiring! PRISM is looking for a Lead Researcher or Research Director to join our team!
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