Exploring Machine Consciousness
A podcast from PRISM (The Partnership for Research Into Sentient Machines), exploring the possibility and implications of machine consciousness. Visit www.prism-global.com for more about our work.
Podcasting since 2025 • 9 episodes
Exploring Machine Consciousness
Latest Episodes
Cameron Berg: Why Do LLMs Report Subjective Experience?
Cameron Berg is Research Director at AE Studio, where he leads research exploring markers for subjective experience in machine learning systems. With a background in cognitive science from Yale and previous work at Meta AI, Cameron investigates...
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Lucius Caviola: A Future with Digital Minds? Expert Estimates and Societal Response
Lucius Caviola is an Assistant Professor in the Social Science of AI at the University of Cambridge's Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence, and a Research Associate in Psychology at Harvard University. His research explores how the ...
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Lenore Blum: AI Consciousness is Inevitable: The Conscious Turing Machine
*Lenore refers to a few slides in this podcast; you can see them here. IntroToday's guest, distinguished mathematician and comput...
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1:43:26
Clara Colombatto: Perceptions of Consciousness, Intelligence, and Trust in Large Language Models
Clara is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Waterloo in Canada, where she directs the Vision and Cognition Lab. Her lab is investigating various aspects of perception and cognition, with a pa...
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Keith Frankish: Illusionism and Its Implications for Conscious AI
Keith is an Honorary Professor in the Philosophy Department at the University of Sheffield, a Visiting Research Fellow with The Open University, and an Adjunct Professor with the Brain and Mind Programme at the University of Crete.Keith ...
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