News &
Insights.
Discover ideas, updates, and expert perspectives on the technologies shaping the future of intelligent systems and enterprise AI.
The year of conscious AI
Executive Magazine, August 2025 For years, the idea of machine consciousness has belonged to the realm of philosophy and science fiction. But as AI systems become more sophisticated, the debate is shifting from…
Trusting an unverified agent...
The Next Web, 27 August 2025 Trusting an unverified AI agent is like handing your keys to a drunk graduate AI agents can create costly mistakes without…
AI agents will negotiate deals and spend money on our behalf
Calum on the Ezra Chapman Curious podcast. When superintelligence finally arrives, humanity may face a brutal truth: we could become the chimpanzees of the…
Are AIs like intoxicated graduates?
Daniel on the Driven by Data podcast.
Daniel Hulme on AI, Consciousness, and the Future of Work
My Conscium co-founder Daniel Hulme spent nearly an hour with Richard Atherton on the Being Human Podcast, and it's one of the more complete public accounts of…
-1.png)
Are today’s LLMs conscious?
Many people are tempted to believe that large language models (LLMs), such as ChatGPT, Gemini, and Mistral, might be conscious. This is understandable – they…
Engineering Consciousness
This article first appeared in Unite.AI on 9 July 2025 Blake Lemoine jumped the gun Three years ago, Google fired the software engineer Blake Lemoine for…
AI Companions and the Consciousness Dilemma: Does It Really Matter?
More and more people are wondering whether AI is becoming conscious, and many believe it has already happened. But even more striking than the question of AI…
The FT talks to Conscium about the shortcomings of AI agents
The FT's John Thornhill talked to Daniel about the need to verify AI agents.
Conscium's AI Agent Verification service launch covered in Ad Age
From Ad Age, 2 July 2025: "AI safety startup Conscium has developed an agent verification system meant to test AI agents for accuracy, responsiveness and…
Launching AI Agent Verification: Ensuring Trust in Autonomous Systems
I flew to San Francisco to launch something we'd been building at Conscium for a while: an AI Agent Verification service. The launch happened at the World AI…
