OpinionMay 1, 2025
If a Chatbot Tells You It Is Conscious, Should You Believe It?
AI systems could show signs of consciousness. We need to develop better tests to show whether they are actually aware
Stories by Susan Schneider
Susan Schneider is the founding director of the Center for the Future Mind at Florida Atlantic University, where she is the William F. Dietrich Distinguished Professor in the department of philosophy and the Stiles-Nicholson Brain Institute. Previously, she held the Blumberg-NASA/Library of Congress Chair in Astrobiology and the Distinguished Scholar Chair at the Library of Congress. Her latest book is Artificial You: AI and the Future of Your Mind. She holds a Ph.D. in philosophy from Rutgers University.
CognitionAugust 6, 2018
Spacetime Emergence, Panpsychism and the Nature of Consciousness
How does experience, which is so intimately tied to our perception of time and space, arise from timeless, non-spatial ingredients?
ComputingJuly 19, 2017
Is Anyone Home? A Way to Find Out If AI Has Become Self-Aware
It’s not easy, but a newly proposed test might be able to detect consciousness in a machine