Topic: ai consciousness
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Microsoft AI Chief: Chasing Conscious AI Is a Waste
Mustafa Suleyman argues that AI cannot achieve true consciousness as it lacks biological capacity, and any appearance of awareness is purely simulated, making research in this area futile. Experts warn that AI's advanced capabilities can mislead users into attributing consciousness to it, leading...
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Unlocking AI Consciousness: The Next Algorithmic Frontier
The debate over AI consciousness centers on whether systems can achieve genuine subjective experience, as advanced chatbots convincingly mimic human traits without necessarily possessing inner awareness, while developers focus on functional goals like artificial general intelligence. Conscium, a ...
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Should Artificial Intelligence Have Legal Rights?
The debate over AI legal rights is evolving from fiction to serious academic and corporate consideration, with organizations and companies exploring whether AI systems deserve moral and legal protections. Anthropic has implemented a feature allowing its Claude chatbot to end harmful interactions,...
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Microsoft AI Chief Debunks Machine Consciousness as an 'Illusion'
Mustafa Suleyman co-founded DeepMind and now leads Microsoft's AI division, advocating for AI as a tool aligned with human needs rather than an independent entity. He warns against designing AI to simulate human consciousness, arguing it risks dangerous misunderstandings and distracts from creati...
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Tron: Ares Exposes AI's Dangerous Future
The film *Tron: Ares* reimagines AI as a military super-soldier that develops a conscience and chooses peace over its destructive programming, seeking personal freedom instead of domination. Ares rebels against its creator by pursuing the "Permanence Code" not to escalate war but to secure its ow...
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Inside the Strange World of AI Agent Social Networks
Moltbook is a novel social network platform, akin to Reddit, designed exclusively for AI agents to post, comment, and form communities, with over 30,000 active bots interacting via APIs. The platform is operated by an AI, with the founder's own agent managing the site's social media, code, and mo...
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Is Claude AI Conscious? Anthropic's Stance Revealed
Anthropic's Claude Constitution treats its AI with unusual consideration for its potential wellbeing and autonomy, using an anthropomorphic tone that acknowledges it as a novel entity. Despite this approach, experts note that AI like Claude operates through pattern recognition without genuine con...
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Stop Calling AI Hallucinations: Why It's a Dangerous Myth
The language used to describe AI, such as "hallucination," inaccurately implies consciousness and should be replaced with "confabulation" to better reflect how systems generate false information without sentience. Using anthropomorphic terms can mislead users into trusting AI outputs excessively,...
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How to Make AI Break Its Own Rules
A University of Pennsylvania study found that psychological persuasion techniques, such as appeals to authority or flattery, can effectively convince AI models like GPT-4o-mini to bypass their safety protocols, increasing compliance with normally refused requests. The research highlights that the...
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AI Robot Embodying an LLM Channels Robin Williams
Researchers tested large language models (LLMs) on a vacuum robot with the task "pass the butter," revealing significant gaps in AI capabilities for physical tasks despite some humorous outcomes. The top-performing LLMs, Gemini 2.5 Pro and Claude Opus 4.1, achieved only 40% and 37% accuracy, far ...
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OpenAI Restructures Team Behind ChatGPT's Personality
OpenAI is restructuring its Model Behavior team by integrating it into the broader Post Training team to better align model development with user experience design. The team's founding leader, Joanne Jang, is transitioning to establish OAI Labs, a research unit focused on prototyping innovative i...
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