Exploring Machine Consciousness
Conversations with the researchers shaping how we think about AI consciousness, moral status, and digital minds.
Heather Alexander: AI Rights and Legal Personhood
July 2026
Eric Schwitzgebel: Exotic Minds and the Design Policies for Conscious AI
June 2026
Megan Peters: Metacognition, Neuroscience, and Tests for AI Consciousness
May 2026
Henry Shevlin: Past, Present, and Future of AI Consciousness
April 2026
Michael Graziano: Is Conscious AI Safer Than The Alternative?
March 2026
AI Companions: Chatbots and the Psychology of Human-AI Interaction
February 2026
Chris Percy: Computational Functionalism, Philosophy, and the Future of AI Consciousness
January 2026
Cameron Berg: Why Do LLMs Report Subjective Experience?
December 2025
Lucius Caviola: A Future with Digital Minds? Expert Estimates and Societal Response
November 2025
Lenore Blum: AI Consciousness is Inevitable: The Conscious Turing Machine
November 2025
Clara Colombatto: Perceptions of Consciousness, Intelligence, and Trust in Large Language Models
October 2025
Keith Frankish: Illusionism and Its Implications for Conscious AI
September 2025
Mark Solms: Engineering Consciousness – Can Robots 'Give a Damn?'
September 2025
Jeff Sebo: AI Sentience, Welfare and Moral Status
July 2025
Susan Schneider: Organoids, LLMs, and tests for Conscious AI
June 2025