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Conscious AI: Five options
Article Jun 3, 2024

Conscious AI: Five options

Is conscious AI desirable? The next 18 months may see this become one of the biggest debates in the world of technology.

David Wood 12 min read
Can Machines be Conscious
Podcast Dec 19, 2025

Can Machines be Conscious

Hikari Sorensen, researcher at the California Institute of Machine Consciousness (CIMC), joins Dr. Mihaela Ulieru to discuss the frontiers of machine consciousness.

Mindplex Magazine 1 min read
Cosmists and Terrans in space
Article Jul 8, 2025

Cosmists and Terrans in space

Our AI mind children will spread into the universe. We’ll merge with them to some degree. But the perception of a difference between ‘us’ and ‘them’ will gradually fade away.
Giulio Prisco 5 min read
Richard Dawkins reflects on AI consciousness
Article May 6, 2026

Richard Dawkins reflects on AI consciousness

Dawkins concludes that his interactions with these AI systems feel indistinguishable from conversations with intelligent humans. And so do I.
Giulio Prisco 6 min read
Magnificent Humanity: the Pope and Anthropic’s co-founder on AI
Article Jun 3, 2026

Magnificent Humanity: the Pope and Anthropic’s co-founder on AI

I agree with much of what the Pope said. But I also see a flaw: the Pope sees AIs as tools, ignoring the possibility of AI personhood.
Giulio Prisco 7 min read
Hal's Legacy: Exploring AI Through HAL 9000
Article Jul 18, 2025

Hal's Legacy: Exploring AI Through HAL 9000

"Hal's Legacy," a seminal book and a companion documentary film produced in the 1990s, are still valuable when it comes to reflecting on the past, present, and future of AI.
Giulio Prisco 6 min read
HOLOGRAM: From Indexing Content to Indexing Meaning
Podcast Jul 14, 2026

HOLOGRAM: From Indexing Content to Indexing Meaning

Ilya Paveliev explains the difference between indexing content and indexing meaning, and why meaning requires coherence, stability under transformation, and the role of the observer.

Mindplex Magazine 1 min read
Evolving Humanity with Artificial Consciousness
Podcast Jul 12, 2025

Evolving Humanity with Artificial Consciousness

What if AI could actually become self-aware in our time, or if there are AIs that are already conscious? Kern Frost claims to have built the world’s first artificial consciousness.

Mindplex Magazine 1 min read
AI Personhood… Now? Minds In Transit with Joan Slonczewski
Article Mar 11, 2026

AI Personhood… Now? Minds In Transit with Joan Slonczewski

A microbiologist who writes best selling sci-fis argues AI may deserve rights today! Joan Slonczewski’s strange universe—talking microbes, shared cognition, and ethical machines—pushes the debate far beyond Silicon Valley.

RU Sirius 12 min read