LFP 137: Perspectives on Machine Consciousness

Our topic in this episode is a new book that has just been published, “Perspectives on Machine Consciousness”. It contains 26 chapters written by a total of 31 authors, who include a wide range of distinguished neuroscientists, philosophers, technologists, AI specialists, science fiction authors, and futurists. One of the book’s co-editors is Calum, which is why David is asking the questions today.

Selected follow-ups:

• "Perspectives on Machine Consciousness" - the book
• About Conscium
• "Dr. Daniel Hulme" - personal website
• Verify ax (AI agent verification platform)
• "Hard Problem of Consciousness" - Wikipedia
• "The Evidence for AI Consciousness, Today" - by Cameron Berg
• "Consciousness in Artificial Intelligence: Insights from the Science of Consciousness" by Patrick Butlin et al
• "Why AI Isn’t Going to Become Conscious" - Anil Seth at TED
• "Futures with Digital Minds" - by Lucius Caviola and Bradford Saad
• "Will AI outsmart human intelligence? - with 'Godfather of AI' Geoffrey Hinton" - The Royal Institution
• "Richard Dawkins concludes AI is conscious, even if it doesn’t know it" - The Guardian
• "Judgment Day" - Terminator Wiki
• "Mindcrime" - Less Wrong
• "Elon Musk wants to save Western civilization from empathy" - CNN
• "Agent Smith's Disgust for Humanity – Iconic Matrix Scene"
• "Determined: A Science of Life Without Free Will" (book by Robert Sapolsky) - Wikipedia
• "International Coordination on Advanced AI Red Lines" - IASEAI
• "AGI Red Lines and Green Arrows" - Daniel Faggella
• "Mark Solms: Engineering Consciousness – Can Robots 'Give a Damn?'" - Prism
• "Can analogue minds live forever?" - Chris Percy
• "The 'Pandora's Brain' series" - Calum Chace
• "The Rise and Fall of Agent Civilizations" - Dwarkesh Patel
• "Gaia hypothesis" - Wikipedia
• "Can AI Become Conscious? with Susan Schneider" - Closer to Truth
• "The frontier of brain science: AI and organoid research takes center stage in Silicon Valley" - UC Santa Cruz News

Music: Spike Protein, by Koi Discovery, available under CC0 1.0 Public Domain Declaration

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