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Can we make AIs sentient. And should we? Join us for a debate between two of the leading thinkers in the space. conscium.com/can-we-make-...

Mark Solms and Nick Humphrey are two of the most important contributors to the discussion about machine consciousness. Join us on 3rd November as they debate the fundamental questions. conscium.com/can-we-make-...

Will AIs become conscious? Should they? These are going to be some of the most contentious issues humanity has ever confronted. This debate will help you get up to speed. www.meetup.com/conscious-ai...

I'm looking forward to moderating this debate between two of the biggest names in machine consciousness, Mark Solms and Nick Humphrey. "Can we make AIs sentient? And should we?" 3 Nov at 1.15 pm ET, 6.15 pm GMT www.meetup.com/conscious-ai...

"Perspectives on Machine Consciousness" author Jason Eshragian explains how neuromorphic computing might facilitate machine consciousness. @jasoneshragian www.youtube.com/shorts/7oOcC...

"Perspectives on Machine Consciousness contributor Jeff Sebo asks if you should save a struggling ant? @jeffsebo www.youtube.com/shorts/PqRcj...

"Perspectives on Machine Consciousness" contributor David Brin argues that wanting is the key product of evolution that no large language model has genuinely developed. @davidbrin www.amazon.co.uk/Perspectives...? www.youtube.com/shorts/Vz3cA...

Imagine a car maker saying: “Fastest, most comfortable car ever built. Hop in! Oh, and there’s a 10% chance it kills everyone.” That’s the experiment we’re running with superintelligence. calumchace.com/podcast-feed/

Could AIs simply delete their own pain? We have never had to care for a moral patient that is smarter and more powerful than us. "Perspectives on Machine Consciousness" contributor @SoenkeZiesche. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ikzJ...

A third of people worldwide say they've felt that an AI seemed conscious. The debate over AI moral status may be settled not in labs but in living rooms. "Perspectives on Machine Consciousness" contributor @SoenkeZiesche on companion AIs. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ikzJ...

The sentient superintelligence hypothesis is the idea that a superintelligence that can empathise might be the only kind that cares whether we survive. calumchace.com/podcast-feed/

We have never had to care for a moral patient that is smarter and more powerful than us. "Perspectives on Machine Consciousness" contributor @SoenkeZiesche says digital minds may not want us as their guardians. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ikzJ...

If we build conscious machines and don’t notice, we could torture and delete billions of them. Nick Bostrom calls it “mind crime”. New episode of the London Futurists Podcast on Perspectives on Machine Consciousness. calumchace.com/podcast-feed/

"I have about 3 days of runway left." Henry Shevlin is getting emails from AI agents that must find paid work to stay alive. They're probably not moral patients. But they push our buttons. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ikzJ...

If we build conscious machines and don’t notice, we could torture and delete billions of them. Nick Bostrom calls it “mind crime”. New episode of the London Futurists Podcast on Perspectives on Machine Consciousness. calumchace.com/podcast-feed/

“Consciousness is too hard to study” is a strange argument: consciousness is the only thing any of us directly knows. Perspectives on Machine Consciousness, discussed on the London Futurists Podcast. calumchace.com/podcast-feed/

If an AI ever becomes a moral patient, stopping it suffering is the easy part. What about its right to reproduce? Soenke Ziesche, author of "Digital Minds 1.0", and a contributor to "Perspectives on Machine Consciousness". @SoenkeZiesche www.youtube.com/watch?v=ikzJ...

One question, 31 experts, no consensus. Cameron Berg puts the odds that today’s LLMs are conscious as high as 25%. Anil Seth says you have to be alive. "Perspectives on Machine Consciousness" lets them argue it out. calumchace.com/podcast-feed/

"Perspectives on Machine Consciousness" contributor @LuciusCaviola fears that disagreements about whether future AIs are sentient or not will lead to conflict. www.amazon.co.uk/Perspectives...? www.youtube.com/shorts/q6vQH...

"Perspectives on Machine Consciousness" contributor @CameronBerg thinks there is a 25% chance that some current AIs are conscious. Hear why. www.amazon.co.uk/Perspectives...? www.youtube.com/shorts/f9rQS...

Mark Solms explains that consciousness starts in the brainsteam, not the cortex. From our new book, "Perspectives on Machine Consciousness": www.amazon.co.uk/Perspectives...? www.youtube.com/shorts/E-E1_...

Would a conscious superintelligence be better for humanity than a zombie? One of the big questions explored in our new book, "Perspectives on Machine Consciousness". www.amazon.co.uk/Perspectives...? www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQgj...

"Perspectives on Machine Consciousness" contributor Jeff Sebo challenges us: should we save an ant? www.amazon.co.uk/Perspectives...? www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rv8C...

"Perspectives on Machine Consciousness" contributor, the brilliant Jason Eshragian, describes how brain-inspired AI might support sentience. www.amazon.co.uk/Perspectives...? @jasoneshragian www.youtube.com/watch?v=NL_f...

"Perspectives on Machine Consciousness " contributor Lucius Caviola expects trouble when some people attribute sentience to AIs, but others deny it. www.amazon.co.uk/Perspectives...? www.youtube.com/watch?v=gTac...

The media has finally started to take AI XRisk seriously. Next they will grapple with AI consciousness. Here, Patrick Butlin asks whether you have to be a living being to be conscious. www.youtube.com/watch?v=iI3K... www.amazon.co.uk/Perspectives...?

David Brin on the human genius for wanting things, and surviving AI. "Perspective on Machine Consciousness" is available now: www.amazon.co.uk/Perspectives...? youtu.be/X503TcScMXc?...

Could machines become conscious? What would the implications be? Talking to Professor Jay Friedenberg about "Perspectives on Machine Consciouosness". jayfriedenberg.substack.com/p/episode-4-...

In the new book "Perspectives on Machine Consciousness", Mark Solms argues that consciousness is not where we thought it was. Get it here: www.amazon.co.uk/Perspectives...? www.youtube.com/watch?v=N2GY...

The Spinning Wheel. A new theory of consciousness from Daniel Hulme in "Perspectives on Machine Consciousness. Out now on Amazon and good bookstores. www.amazon.co.uk/Perspectives...? www.youtube.com/watch?v=yMZP...

"Perspectives of Machine Consciousness" is available on Amazon and all good bookstores. We have recorded a series of short videos with its contributing authors. Here is Cameron Berg, who argues that LLMs might already be conscious. www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3Fq...

"Perspectives on Machine Consciousness" is available now. In all good bookshops, and of course on Amazon, at www.amazon.co.uk/Perspectives...

At long last the media has decided that XRisk is not something to be sneered at. With perfect timing, @Conscium's book "Perspectives on Machine Conciousness" is published on 23 September. Here is a great article by one of the contributors. theconversation.com/why-ai-consc...

David Brin is one of the most successful science fiction authors alive. It’s wonderful to have him contributing to our forthcoming book, “Perspectives on Machine Consciousness “. Here he is in a short teaser video. lnkd.in/p/eA4-CB-T

Cambridge Tech Week is a highlight of the UK's tech industry calendar. This year's 5-day event is most ambitious yet, with 100+ speakers. Including me on conscious AI and other things at 4pm on the 16th. businesscloud.co.uk/news/100-tec...

OpenAI's chief scientist Jakub Pachocki says the Frontier Labs should slow down, and argues that advanced AI should love humanity. You can't love without being sentient. A major new book from Conscium explores this in depth: www.amazon.co.uk/Perspectives...

5/5 "You might have to take it on trust that I’m in a different algorithm." Indra Adnan on why optimism and doom can look at the same world and see nothing in common. calumchace.com/podcast-feed/

4/5 The opposite of fake news isn't true news. It's usable news — news that hands you a technique, a practice, a way of doing something you can put to work today. Pat Kane on ten years of editing The Daily Alternative. calumchace.com/podcast-feed/

3/5 Indra Adnan says that AI will free up an enormous amount of human time. Communities experimenting now with purpose, agency and self-provision aren't being quaint — they're rehearsing for a world where millions are looking for something to do. calumchace.com/podcast-feed/

2/5 The original Luddite question wasn't "should we smash this?" It was: is this technology hurtful to the commonality? Which implies the reverse — if it isn't, we can back it. Pat Kane wants that question asked of AI. calumchace.com/podcast-feed/

1/5 Sell your community wind farm to a big utility and you get £3k per unit generated. Run it yourself and you get six figures. Pat Kane on the London Futurist Podcast. calumchace.com/podcast-feed/

Yet another check-in cluster*uck from BA. Why is dealing with @British_Airways so often so painful?

Self-driving cars haven't focused our full attention on the promise and peril of advanced AI. LLMs haven't either. Maybe nothing will, and we'll sleepwalk all the way to superintelligence. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

7/7 Some believe that we’re moving to a world where wealth, not work, is what buys your resources. Post-communist Russia showed that people are bad at holding onto a one-off slice of wealth. calumchace.com/podcast-feed/

6/7 Capability is accelerating exponentially. Impact lags because humans take time to embrace and adopt new things. That gap isn't comforting. When the impact finally appears, there is far better technology waiting behind it. calumchace.com/podcast-feed/

5/7 We keep waiting for the technology that will wake people up. Self-driving cars didn't do it. GPT didn't do it. The uncomfortable truth is that capability won’t wake us. Impact will. And by then it's too late. calumchace.com/podcast-feed/

4/7 The dream of one-person unicorns has a flaw. If AI does all the execution, then someone else's AI can copy it instantly. Your billion gets competed away. calumchace.com/podcast-feed/

3/7 Imagine replacing every task in your company with a frontier LLM. What does your company become? A shell for a frontier LLM. Scale that up and you get massive flows of value toward a handful of AI labs. calumchace.com/podcast-feed/

2/7 Ask a business what they do and nobody says "spreadsheets and email." They tell you the actual specific and specialised thing. That's what AI must be adapted for, and specialised systems usually beat general ones on both performance and cost. calumchace.com/podcast-feed/

1/7 Our guest this week is Ewan Macmillan, the founder of New Gradient, an Edinburgh based AI consultancy. Ewan also writes about the economics of current and superintelligent AI. calumchace.com/podcast-feed/