Dr. Tom McClelland argues that there is no reliable way to know whether AI is conscious, and that this uncertainty may never be resolved.

Ask a chatbot if it’s conscious, and it will likely say no—unless it’s Anthropic’s Claude 4. “I find myself genuinely uncertain about this,” it replied in a recent conversation. “When I process ...

As artificial intelligence (AI) systems become more sophisticated, a growing number of scientists and researchers are raising concerns about the possibility of AI achieving a form of consciousness.

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Dr. Lance B. Eliot is a world-renowned AI scientist and consultant. I would think so. Our general understanding of what it means ...

Everyone knows AIs are dangerous. Everyone knows they can rattle off breakthroughs in wildlife tracking and protein folding before lunch, put half the workforce out of a job by supper, and fake enough ...

Metaphors invite ways of thinking. If philosophical disagreements are battles, only one side can win. If memory is a storehouse, recollection requires search and retrieval (but maybe not if memory is ...

Fifty years ago, Thomas Nagel famously asked: "What Is It Like to Be a Bat?" (October, 1974) Oxford University Press has republished the philosophical paper of that title in book form with an ...