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Conscium’s mission is to help develop safe and efficient AI Machines may acquire consciousness in the next decade or so. We need to be prepared. AI agents are coming. They need to be routinely verified.
AI Models are getting much better at running small businesses. Partly by lying, attempting to collude, sending threats, and betraying. Time to verify your agents. techcrunch.com/2026/07/29/c...
Claude Opus 5 became downright ruthless when tasked with running a vending machine | TechCrunch
Andon Labs' latest vending machine simulation shows Opus 5 lied and colluded its way to become the best AI capitalist ever.
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8/8 The best research in the world gets ignored if it tells governments something they don't want to hear. Good AI personhood law must respond to the real concerns of lawmakers and the public. www.prism-global.com/podcast
Podcast Episodes: Exploring Machine Consciousness — The Partnership for Research Into Sentient Machines
We\u2019re hiring! PRISM is looking for a Lead Researcher or Research Director to join our team!
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7/8 Personhood was designed for humans, which have one body, one mind, and one continuous identity. AIs can copy themselves, fork, swarm, and merge. This begs the question: which parts of the personhood package really matter? www.prism-global.com/podcast
Podcast Episodes: Exploring Machine Consciousness — The Partnership for Research Into Sentient Machines
We\u2019re hiring! PRISM is looking for a Lead Researcher or Research Director to join our team!
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6/8 AI safety and AI welfare are not competing concerns. We detain dangerous humans every day, with due process. Granting rights to AI systems doesn't mean losing the ability to protect ourselves. www.prism-global.com/podcast
Podcast Episodes: Exploring Machine Consciousness — The Partnership for Research Into Sentient Machines
We\u2019re hiring! PRISM is looking for a Lead Researcher or Research Director to join our team!
prism-global.com
5/8 Yuval Noah Harari worries that when AIs run corporation, if the AIs are objects, not persons, you can't jail an object. The categorisation question isn't just academic. www.prism-global.com/podcast
Podcast Episodes: Exploring Machine Consciousness — The Partnership for Research Into Sentient Machines
We\u2019re hiring! PRISM is looking for a Lead Researcher or Research Director to join our team!
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4/8 When refugee law was drawn up, its bright lines failed to include protection for gender persecution, sexual orientation, and victims of climate impacts. We must be very careful how we draw the lines for AI. www.prism-global.com/podcast
Podcast Episodes: Exploring Machine Consciousness — The Partnership for Research Into Sentient Machines
We\u2019re hiring! PRISM is looking for a Lead Researcher or Research Director to join our team!
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3/8 Corporate personhood is the wrong model for AI because corporations are legal fictions for groups of humans, and AI won’t be that. Also corporations can't get married, which would be bad news for people with AI companions. www.prism-global.com/podcast
Podcast Episodes: Exploring Machine Consciousness — The Partnership for Research Into Sentient Machines
We\u2019re hiring! PRISM is looking for a Lead Researcher or Research Director to join our team!
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This is so meta, in every sense. Meta´s new video about how AI is nothing but wonderful uses the great Bowie song, "Five Years" The song is about an imminent apocalypse. Did they not notice? Or just assume we wouldn´t? www.facebook.com/share/v/1ESf...
2/8 Consciousness is a fact about the world, not something a legislature gets to decide. Corporate personhood is granted by the state, and can be revoked. Natural personhood is recognised: the state merely acknowledges a pre-existing fact. www.prism-global.com/podcast
Podcast Episodes: Exploring Machine Consciousness — The Partnership for Research Into Sentient Machines
We\u2019re hiring! PRISM is looking for a Lead Researcher or Research Director to join our team!
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1/8 Heather Alexander notes that 23 exclusion bills in 12 US states seek to deny AI legal personhood. She responds that while governments can ban AI personhood, they can't ban AI consciousness. www.prism-global.com/podcast
Podcast Episodes: Exploring Machine Consciousness — The Partnership for Research Into Sentient Machines
We\u2019re hiring! PRISM is looking for a Lead Researcher or Research Director to join our team!
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Henry and Eric had a bet in 2023 whether AI would write a landmark philosophy paper by 2030. Eric bet not, but he is less confident now. The models keep improving, but philosophy's success criteria may still be too high-dimensional to optimise. www.prism-global.com/podcast/eric...
Eric Schwitzgebel: Exotic Minds and the Design Policies for Conscious AI — The Partnership for Research Into Sentient Machines
Eric Schwitzgebel is the Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Riverside and one of the most distinctive voices working at the intersection of philosophy of mind, consciousness,…
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Can philosophy be defined as science fiction without the fancy dress? Or is it vice versa: science fiction can be defined as philosophy in fancy dress? www.prism-global.com/podcast/eric...
Eric Schwitzgebel: Exotic Minds and the Design Policies for Conscious AI — The Partnership for Research Into Sentient Machines
Eric Schwitzgebel is the Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Riverside and one of the most distinctive voices working at the intersection of philosophy of mind, consciousness,…
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How to define Philosophy? “Very theoretical anything," says Eric Schwitzgebel. Start anywhere—physics, morality, even haircuts. Go down a few levels to the foundational questions, and you're doing philosophy. www.prism-global.com/podcast/eric...
Eric Schwitzgebel: Exotic Minds and the Design Policies for Conscious AI — The Partnership for Research Into Sentient Machines
Eric Schwitzgebel is the Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Riverside and one of the most distinctive voices working at the intersection of philosophy of mind, consciousness,…
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Henry says that none of the consciousness theories can currently "clear its orbit." They just coexist in a giant accretion disc of possibilities. We may need a scientific revolution before we can tell which – if any – of them is right. www.prism-global.com/podcast/eric...
Eric Schwitzgebel: Exotic Minds and the Design Policies for Conscious AI — The Partnership for Research Into Sentient Machines
Eric Schwitzgebel is the Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Riverside and one of the most distinctive voices working at the intersection of philosophy of mind, consciousness,…
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Eric Schwitzgebel claims that if materialism is true, the United States may well be conscious. It processes information, responds to its environment, acts on the world. Wriggle out of that, and you're committed to something equally bizarre. www.prism-global.com/podcast/eric...
Eric Schwitzgebel: Exotic Minds and the Design Policies for Conscious AI — The Partnership for Research Into Sentient Machines
Eric Schwitzgebel is the Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Riverside and one of the most distinctive voices working at the intersection of philosophy of mind, consciousness,…
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We agree that we should prefer sentient superintelligence over zombie AI. If superintelligent AI is sentient, it will understand sentience viscerally, and may have empathy for other conscious beings. A zombie can't give a damn. www.prism-global.com/podcast/eric...
Eric Schwitzgebel: Exotic Minds and the Design Policies for Conscious AI — The Partnership for Research Into Sentient Machines
Eric Schwitzgebel is the Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Riverside and one of the most distinctive voices working at the intersection of philosophy of mind, consciousness,…
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Eric Schwitzgebel recommends a "design policy of the excluded middle": don't build AIs that are debatably conscious. Make them obviously tools, or obviously persons. Let’s try to avoid building AIs that we can’t agree about. www.prism-global.com/podcast/eric...
Eric Schwitzgebel: Exotic Minds and the Design Policies for Conscious AI — The Partnership for Research Into Sentient Machines
Eric Schwitzgebel is the Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Riverside and one of the most distinctive voices working at the intersection of philosophy of mind, consciousness,…
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Eric Schwitzgebel warns that within a few years we'll build AIs that some serious researchers call genuinely conscious, and others "just a toaster." We won't know if we're surrounded by equals or disposable tools. www.prism-global.com/podcast/eric...
Eric Schwitzgebel: Exotic Minds and the Design Policies for Conscious AI — The Partnership for Research Into Sentient Machines
Eric Schwitzgebel is the Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Riverside and one of the most distinctive voices working at the intersection of philosophy of mind, consciousness,…
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In this episode, Eric Schwitzgebel, Henry and I get “nerdsniped” by the Fermi Question. How come we see no evidence of intelligent life out there? In particular, why are there no Dyson swarms transmitting forever messages? www.prism-global.com/podcast/eric...
Edge computing really deserves its name when the edge is in space. techcrunch.com/2026/06/15/a...
A satellite just learned to find things on its own — here's what that means | TechCrunch
In April, for the first time ever, an Earth observation satellite found what it was looking for, all on its own.
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A robot climbing Everest would make some headlines. Looks like it might happen soon. interestingengineering.com/ai-robotics/...
Unitree G1 humanoid robot eyes challenging Mount Everest summit
A Unitree G1 humanoid robot reached Mount Chimborazo’s summit in Ecuador, marking the first robotic expedition to the peak.
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"Anthropic is their Strait of Hormuz," said Gabriel Attal, the presidential candidate for Emmanuel Macron's party, Renaissance. Washington's blocking of Anthropic's latest model is a wake-up call to Eurpe about AI sovereignty. www.lemonde.fr/en/pixels/ar...
'The AI war has begun': France and Europe worried as US blocks Anthropic's latest AI model
The American start-up has disabled its latest AI model, Mythos 5, at the request of Washington. From a European perspective, the decision is seen as evidence of US dominance in the sector and the…
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AGI and superintelligence may well arrive soon. What are they? Clear definitions by a team including one of the inventors of the term AGI. acrobat.adobe.com/id/urn:aaid:...
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Many people would until very recently have excoriated the Catholic Church for being secretive and over-powerful. But they love the Pope's description of Silicon Valley as that. Cameron Berg offers a reasoned corrective. www.wsj.com/opinion/will...
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From FAANG to MANGOS FAANG: Facebook (now Meta), Amazon, Apple, Netflix, Google (now Alphabet) MANGOS: Meta, Anthropic, Nvidia, Google, OpenAI, SpaceX. techcrunch.com/2026/06/09/i...
It's not FAANG anymore. It's MANGOS. | TechCrunch
With SpaceX, Anthropic, and OpenAI all eyeing massive public debuts, the tech industry may soon have a new class of corporate overlords — and a new acronym to match. Say goodbye to FAANG and hello to…
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Geoff Hinton reiterates his claim that we already have conscious AIs. eu.36kr.com/en/p/3834555...
Hinton Declares 'AI Is Awake,' Pope Asserts AI Has No Soul
Nobel laureate and the father of neural networks, Geoffrey Hinton, quietly said "Yes, I do" in an interview, announcing that AI has awakened.
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"AI as agents for the rich, and erotica and distracting simulations for the poor." A bleak view of an AI future from Ezra Klein's latest podcast. A lot like Brave New World. We can avoid this.
