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The Economic Singularity and the Five As
This article first appeared in Forbes on 28 September 2025The Economic Singularity is a term I coined a decade ago to denote the moment when there are no longer any jobs for the vast majority of humans. In mathematics,…
Should AIs get legal rights? Wired Magazine
Wired's Kylie Robison wrote a piece asking whether AI should get legal rights, and it's one of the better mainstream treatments of the field Conscium works…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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 launches PRISM, a non-profit dedicated to researching sentient AI
As artificial intelligence continues to evolve at an unprecedented pace, a new organization has emerged to address one of the most profound and complex…
Conscium discusses machine consciousness and agents at MWC in Barcelona
Calum discusses the possibility and implications of machine consciousness (4 minutes), on a panel at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, in March 2025. He…
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,…
