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The Road to Superintelligence
First published in Forbes on 13 November 2025 About a decade ago, Geoff Hinton declared that human radiologists were like Wily E. Coyote in the Roadrunner show. They had run off the edge of a cliff, but hadn’t realised…
AI Jobpocalypse: Separating Hype from Reality and Identifying Real Impacts
I went on Times Radio this week to talk about Amazon's latest round of job cuts, and whether it marks the start of the AI jobpocalypse everyone keeps asking…
Conscium is 'the big story' in Wired
Wired's Will Knight spent time with my Conscium co-founder Daniel Hulme and our scientific advisor Mark Solms for a feature on machine consciousness.
The 75th Anniversary of the Turing Test
First published in Forbes on 8 October 2025 A test for consciousness, not intelligence This month is the 75th anniversary of the Turing Test, which Alan Turing…
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…
Should workers prepare to become AI agent bosses?
IT Pro's Rich McEachran asked me for a quote on a question I think most companies are getting backwards: should workers be preparing to manage AI…
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…
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…
