This demonstrated that machines do not need to be conscious to change us. They only need to seem so. If a basic script could persuade people to disclose their innermost worries and secrets, it should ...

Microsoft AI’s CEO, Mustafa Suleyman, recently introduced the term Seemingly Conscious AI (SCAI), and it has attracted wide attention. SCAI describes systems that act so much like humans you could ...

Humans might be the only known beings aware of themselves, others, and the world around them. They have unique emotions and feelings that others cannot fully understand from the outside. For example, ...

In June 2022, Google engineer Blake Lemoine made headlines by claiming the company’s LaMDA chatbot had achieved sentience. The software had the conversational ability of a precocious seven-year-old, ...

A new study published in Science has identified the thalamus as a central player in how humans become consciously aware of visual information. By recording electrical activity directly from the brains ...