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Daniel on the Being Human Podcast
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 how he thinks about AI right now, covering the economics of…
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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 in San Francisco
Calum delivered a keynote at the World AI Summit in San Francisco on 18 June 2025. He was there to launch Conscium's AI Agent Verification service. He spoke…
Conscium launches AI Verification Platform
From Startups Magazine, 18 June 2025: Conscium has developed a platform to verify AI agents for accuracy, responsiveness, and other performance…
Anil Seth on Machine Consciousness
Anil Seth is a scientific adviser to Conscium. In this article he argues that machine consciousness is possible, but highly unlikely to arise in Large Language…
Calum on Sky News. The UK´s AI plans and confabulating AIs
Calum reviews the UK government´s plans to invest £1bn in AI infrastructure and training. Then he discusses journalists Sam Coates' experience with…
Trump has shown Europe it needs to build a full-stack AI industry
This article first appeared in Fortune on 29 May 2025Europe did not outsource its defense capabilities to the USA, but it did allow itself to become dependent,…
Calum explains Conscium, and argues that Europe needs to build a full-stack AI industry
Published in POLITICO Pro Morning Technology UK newsletter on 30 May 2025 What are you working on at the moment? In addition to my decade-long career as a…
