Many top professionals and leaders may feel uneasy about AI. Here’s why—and what it reveals about human intelligence.

As more people use AI assistants and chatbots for everyday tasks, a curious phenomenon is emerging: a growing number of users ...

In the last few years, there has been an explosion of rapid advances in artificial intelligence (AI), particularly in AI’s ability to engage in conversational style text (called natural language ...

Researchers across biology, philosophy, and AI are split on what counts as a mind—and whether today’s systems qualify.

An image generated by prompts to Google Gemini. (Courtesy of Joe Nalven) This column was composed in part by incorporating responses from a large-language model, a type of artificial intelligence ...

There’s no question that artificial intelligence is rapidly becoming more intelligent, thanks to software platforms including ChatGPT, Google Gemini and Grok. But does that mean AI agents will one day ...

Consciousness could be a fundamental part of reality, like gravity or matter, according to this controversial theory.

In his first-year seminar dubbed “Could a Robot Ever Be Conscious?” Professor Richard Huskey guides students to discuss theories of consciousness. Through a variety of fields ranging from neuroscience ...

Could AI already be conscious? A philosopher warns we can't detect AI sentience, raising urgent ethical questions about a ...