This post explores the growing phenomenon of people forming emotional attachments to AI companions unpacking the mechanisms behind the illusion of consciousness and the ethical risks it poses.

In a recent podcast conversation, Will Millership, CEO of the Partnership for Research into Sentient Machines (PRISM), argued that society cannot afford to ignore the possibility of AI consciousness.

On 14 August we were delighted to host Nikola Kasabov for the eighth event in our Meetup series on artificial consciousness.

Rethink Priorities is in the process of building a model to estimate the probabilities of consciousness in near-future AIs.

At the start of the month, I attended the AI and Sentience conference in Crete, hosted by the International Center for Consciousness Studies (ICCS).

The latest PRISM newsletter featuring new blog articles, upcoming events, new podcasts and a selection of academic and news articles.

It's been three years since Blake Lemoine claimed that the natural language processing AI model known as LaMDA was sentient, and the intervening time has given us useful perspective on what was actually happening in that moment.

Anthropic’s new 'Model Welfare' research represents a critical step toward understanding and addressing the potential emergence of machine consciousness.

On 29 April at 5pm UK time we are delighted to host Jason Eshragian in the sixth in Conscium’s series of Meetups on the subject of artificial consciousness and related subjects.

Two of the founding partners of PRISM, Daniel Hulme and Calum Chase, were recently interviewed as part of #Ai2peace presented by Peace One Day.

Thank you for joining us on our critical journey to promote responsible research into AI consciousness!

We were overwhelmed by the enthusiasm for our inaugural workshop - The Path to Responsible Conscious AI.

PRISM, the ‘world’s first’ non-profit partnership dedicated to investigating and understanding sentient machines, launches today.

We’re thrilled to be launching PRISM with a workshop "The Path to Responsible Conscious AI” at AI UK 2025.