Lucius Caviola argues that as some AI assistants and companions become more humanlike, "more and more people will come to believe that AIs are not just machines, but that they're people". He expects…

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…

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…

Calum Chace asks Daniel Hulme "why is a sentient super intelligence a better idea for us than a zombie super intelligence". Daniel draws on "over two decades" of building AI solutions. He says an AI…

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…

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…

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…

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…

Can a machine become conscious?

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…

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…

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…

Ideally, experts should guide this debate. Unfortunately, they disagree too.

Event will tackle sovereign AI, quantum, AGI, healthcare, scaling deep tech and the blurred line between civilian and defence technology

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

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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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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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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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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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.

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…