Richard Dawkins says extended exchanges with Anthropic’s chatbot felt less like software and more like interacting with ...

Can AI feel anything at all? Anthropic's in-house philosopher says the answer isn't settled. Amanda Askell, who works on shaping Claude's behavior, said in an episode of the "Hard Fork" podcast ...

For decades, artificial intelligence has existed only in our fiction. We’ve imagined intelligent computer programs and malicious machines in everything from Terminator and The Matrix to I, Robot, and ...

In the last few years, there has been an explosion of rapid advances in artificial intelligence (AI), particularly in AI’s ability to engage in conversational style text (called natural language ...

Recently, comments on the potential for AI model Claude to gain consciousness from Anthropic CEO and co-founder Dario Amodei made waves on social media and in internet circles. In a world being ...

AI thrives on data but feeding it the right data is harder than it seems. As enterprises scale their AI initiatives, they face the challenge of managing diverse data pipelines, ensuring proximity to ...

A philosopher at the University of Cambridge says there’s no reliable way to know whether AI is conscious—and that may remain true for the foreseeable future. According to Dr. Tom McClelland, ...

In early May of 2026, Richard Dawkins, one of the most rigorous scientific minds of the past century, published an essay about a long conversation he had with an AI system called Claude (by Anthropic) ...

The only reasonable stance on conscious AI is “agnosticism”: that we won’t, and may never, be able to tell, says a philosophy-of-consciousness expert. This gulf in our knowledge could be exploited by ...

Artificial intelligence has surged in use over the last few years. These computer systems that can perform supposedly human-like tasks such as reasoning, learning, and problem-solving have been ...