But two new papers on the possibility of consciousness in animals and AI suggest new theories for how to test this – one that strikes a middle ground between sensationalism and knee-jerk scepticism ...

Debates over animal minds highlight how murky the question of consciousness really is. AI can now “fight back” in simulations, yet still fails “felt-experience” tests. As more people perceive their AI ...

Researchers are edging closer to experiments that claim to supply artificial intelligence with a missing ingredient for ...

Researchers are trying to build tiny synthetic emotions into AI that they hope will be the scaffolding of machine ...

ChatGPT's o3 model scored a 136 on the Mensa IQ test and a 116 on a custom offline test, outperforming most humans A new survey found 25% of Gen Z believe AI is already conscious, and over half think ...

Early in 2025 dozens of ChatGPT 4.0 users reached out to me to ask if the model was conscious. The artificial intelligence chatbot system was claiming that it was “waking up” and having inner ...

At 78 years old, Deepak Chopra wakes up each morning with a question for his AI. Today’s query explored how every ingredient we use to experience the physical world has no actual existence in that ...

An image generated by prompts to Google Gemini. (Courtesy of Joe Nalven) This column was composed in part by incorporating responses from a large-language model, a type of artificial intelligence ...

NOVATO, Calif., Nov. 15, 2025 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- The Institute of Noetic Sciences (IONS) will announce the winners of the third annual Linda G. O'Bryant Noetic Sciences Research Prize at a special ...

Consciousness should not be deemed as an ‘all-or-nothing’ cognitive function but rather as a graded and multi-dimensional ...

This article was featured in New York’s One Great Story newsletter. Sign up here. Krystal Velorien needed help. A 35-year-old marketing professional living in Ohio who had separated from her husband a ...