In October 2025, a paper titled “Human vs. AI Consciousness” introduced a new metric: the Integration Score for AI, or ISAI. The proposal aims to provide a falsifiable, measurable indicator of consciousness-related properties in artificial systems. It builds on decades...
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Chalmers and Seth on Whe...
On October 14, 2025, Tufts University hosted a symposium titled “Let’s Talk About (Artificial) Consciousness,” organized to honor the late philosopher Daniel Dennett. Among the speakers were David Chalmers and Anil Seth, two of the most prominent researchers working on...
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Half of Americans Think ...
In June, Pew Research Center surveyed 5,023 American adults about artificial intelligence. One question asked whether AI would make people better or worse at forming meaningful relationships. Half the respondents said worse. Five percent said better.
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AAAI Report: Why Scaling...
In late 2024, a survey of 475 AI researchers produced a finding worth more attention than it received. When asked whether simply making large language models bigger would be sufficient to achieve artificial general intelligence, 76% said it was “unlikely”...