Are insects like honey bees conscious? How about AI systems like ChatGPT? Researchers have devised new ways to investigate.

Before we can test for AI consciousness, we need to understand how consciousness actually emerges, experts say.

You might think a honey bee foraging in your garden and a browser window running ChatGPT have nothing in common. But recent ...

IONS created this year's Linda G. O'Bryant Prize to bring urgent attention to noetic principles within the rapidly advancing field of artificial intelligence, and to invigorate a largely overlooked ...

Readers respond to a guest essay about artificial (and human) intelligence and consciousness. Also: Kennedy Center ripple ...

Early in 2025 dozens of ChatGPT 4.0 users reached out to me to ask if the model was conscious. The artificial intelligence chatbot system was claiming that it was “waking up” and having inner ...

Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman's opinions on AI's shape and development carry some weight, which is why it felt like a ...

Does AI lack consciousness? Is that a dealbreaker when it comes to “dating” it? University of Puget Sound professors say it’s complicated.

There is a new review of books in Nature, Consciousness: what it is, where it comes from — and whether machines can have it, where the author wrote, “I consider the indicators as signifying the ...

Public perception is growing that artificial intelligence is already smarter than people, and philosophers say this shift ...

One of the most resonant questions in the debate over artificial intelligence and consciousness comes from philosopher David Chalmers, who framed what he called the "Hard Problem of Consciousness." ...

So yes, Ohio House Bill 469 bars AI systems from getting married, but it also prohibits them from holding a decision-making ...