Exploring Machine Consciousness
by PRISM
Latest episode
18. Peter Salib: Could Granting AI Legal Personhood Make Us Safer?
18. Peter Salib: Could Granting AI Legal Personhood Make Us Safer?
About this podcast
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.
Episodes
- 18. Peter Salib: Could Granting AI Legal Personhood Make Us Safer? · 1 h 23 minPeter Salib is the W. Ronald Robins Professor of Law at the University of Houston Law Center and founder and executive co-director of the Center for Law & AI Risk. His research…
- 17. Soenke Ziesche: Does Moral Concern Require AI to be Conscious? · 1 h 3 minSoenke is the author of Digital Minds 1.0: AI Welfare, Ethics, and Beyond and co-author of Considerations on the AI Endgame: Ethics, Risks and Computational Frameworks. He has…
- 16. Heather Alexander: AI Rights and Legal Personhood · 59 minHeather is a lawyer and scholar of nationality, citizenship and statelessness. She began her career as an asylum lawyer with the UN Refugee Agency and spent fifteen years working…
- 15. Eric Schwitzgebel: Exotic Minds and the Design Policies for Conscious AI · 1 h 12 minGuest Bio 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…
- 14. Megan Peters: Metacognition, Neuroscience, and Tests for AI Consciousness · 54 minMegan Peters is Associate Professor in the Department of Cognitive Sciences at the University of California, Irvine, and incoming faculty at University College London, where her…
- 13. Henry Shevlin: Past, Present, and Future of AI Consciousness · 1 h 7 minIn this episode of Exploring Machine Consciousness, Dr. Henry Shevlin returns to explore how our understanding of consciousness is evolving in the age of advanced AI. From…
- 12. Michael Graziano: Is Conscious AI Safer Than The Alternative? · 1 h 3 minMichael Graziano is Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience at Princeton University and one of the most distinctive voices in consciousness science. His lab at Princeton…
- 11. Rose Guingrich: AI Companions, Chatbots, and the Psychology of Human-AI Interaction · 57 minRose Guingrich is a PhD candidate in Psychology and Social Policy at Princeton University, where she is a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow. Her research…
- 10. Chris Percy: Computational Functionalism, Philosophy, and the Future of AI Consciousness · 53 minChris Percy is Director of the CoSentience Initiative and lead researcher on a grant-funded project investigating artificial consciousness. He has authored academic papers on…
- 9. Cameron Berg: Why Do LLMs Report Subjective Experience? · 58 minCameron 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…
- 8. Lucius Caviola: A Future with Digital Minds? Expert Estimates and Societal Response · 1 h 11 minLucius 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…
- 7. Lenore Blum: AI Consciousness is Inevitable: The Conscious Turing Machine · 1 h 43 min*Lenore refers to a few slides in this podcast; you can see them here. Intro Today's guest, distinguished mathematician and computer scientist Lenore Blum, explains why she and…
- 6. Clara Colombatto: Perceptions of Consciousness, Intelligence, and Trust in Large Language Models · 47 minClara 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…
- 5. Keith Frankish: Illusionism and Its Implications for Conscious AI · 1 h 5 minKeith 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…
- 4. Mark Solms: Engineering Consciousness – Can Robots "Give a Damn?" · 1 h 2 minIn this episode, we ask: if we wanted to construct a conscious mind from scratch, what would we need? That is the question our guest, Professor Mark Solms, addressed in the final…
- 3. Jeff Sebo: AI Sentience, Welfare and Moral Status · 46 minIn this episode, we spoke to Jeff Sebo of New York University. Jeff is the author of the recently published book The Moral Circle: Who Matters, What Matters and Why. In it, he…
- 2. Susan Schneider: Organoids, LLMs, and tests for AI consciousness · 45 minIn the second episode of Exploring Machine Consciousness, we welcomed philosopher and AI expert Professor Susan Schneider to discuss consciousness, quantum physics, and the…
- 1. Henry Shevlin: Anticipating an Einstein moment in the understanding of consciousness · 41 minWelcome to the first episode of Understanding Machine Consciousness. This episode is a collaboration with The London Futurists Podcast. Our guest in this episode is Henry…
