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Machine Consciousness: Anil Seth's Insights on AI and Consciousness
Anil Seth, the neuroscientist who advises Conscium on the science of consciousness, wrote a piece for Big Think that I think every AI leader confidently predicting conscious chatbots within the decade should sit with.…
UK's £1 Billion AI Plan: Infrastructure Focus and ChatGPT's Confabulation
Sky News had me on to cover two stories that landed in the same news cycle but are more connected than they first appear: the UK government's plan to put…
Superintelligence: science fiction or not?
Live Science's Edd Gent put together a piece asking the question I get asked at almost every dinner party: is artificial superintelligence a genuine near-term…
Conscium commentary on the UK's tech visa policy announcement
The UK government has promised more visas for highly skilled tech talent as it looks towoo international AI workers and science graduates amid a wider shake…
Machine consciousness and the 4Cs
Calum explains four scenarios (the four Cs) that may play out when superintelligence arrives, and the role that machine consciousness could play in determining…
Advocates for machine consciousness research
The following organisations argue that machines may become conscious in the coming years or decades, and that for various reasons, it is important that…
People researching artificial consciousness
The study of consciousness used to be career-limiting for serious scientists. Fortunately, that is no longer the case, thanks to improvements in brain imaging,…
UK's AI Strategy: Why Declining the Paris Declaration Matters
Sifted asked me to weigh in after the UK government declined to sign the 60-nation Paris declaration on inclusive and sustainable AI development, and I ended…
Conscium talks on Sky News about the Paris AI Summit
Wilfred Frost had me on Sky News while the AI Action Summit was underway in Paris, to talk about what was actually at stake there: AI risk, and where the UK…
The Guardian on Conscium's Open Letter
The Guardian covered the open letter we organised at Conscium on how to research AI consciousness responsibly, in a piece by Dan Milmo headlined around the…
DeepSeek's Impact on European AI: A New Opportunity for Innovation
My Conscium co-founder Daniel Hulme spoke to Tech.eu about DeepSeek, the Chinese lab whose R1 model release in January 2025 rattled assumptions about how much…
