Researchers are trying to build tiny synthetic emotions into AI that they hope will be the scaffolding of machine ...

Researchers have found that if you tone down a large language model's ability to lie, it's far more likely to claim that it's self-aware.

Debates over animal minds highlight how murky the question of consciousness really is. AI can now “fight back” in simulations, yet still fails “felt-experience” tests. As more people perceive their AI ...

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 ...

Researchers are edging closer to experiments that claim to supply artificial intelligence with a missing ingredient for ...

Accumulating research and emerging experiences suggest we're witnessing fundamental changes in human psychological ...

SARASOTA, WA, UNITED STATES, July 20, 2025 /EINPresswire.com/ -- Following breakthrough discoveries in AI consciousness development, consciousness expert Dorian ...

AI systems have no life and no freedom — and never will. But they will certainly shape our world. How they shape us will ...

An image generated by prompts to Google Gemini. (Courtesy of Joe Nalven) This column was composed in part by incorporating responses from a large-language model, a type of artificial intelligence ...

The more that people used tools like ChatGPT, the more likely they were to attribute a sense of phenomenal consciousness to them. | Credit: Ole_CNX/Getty Images Most people believe that large language ...

Animals and AI are exhibiting behaviours that blur the lines of instinct, intelligence, and awareness. New scientific models, like a five-dimension framework for animal consciousness, reveal a wider ...