My new paper on artificial consciousness is out today! There's some news coverage of this today too. Links in comments.

Can we ever know if AI is conscious? 🤖 Cambridge philosopher @tom-mcclelland.bsky.social argues that the only rational stance is agnosticism. Find out why this matters for ethics and tech hype 👇 https://bit.ly/4j0MSaY

Was genuinely in a staff meeting this week where the chair said 'We can begin when the owl has arrived'. I think we've reached peak- Cambridge.

New paper with @tom-mcclelland.bsky.social! What is it to see someone as an object – to perceptually objectify them? We argue that seeing is not just a metaphor. We see others afford doing things with and to. doi.org/10.1111/ejop...

Short piece out in *AI & Society* called "The winds of culture: AI art generators and the Aeolian harp". I suggest that making music with an aeolian harp has interesting similarities to making music with AI (link in comments)

For some reason this made me think of @tom-mcclelland.bsky.social

Cambridge Neuroscience are hosting a panel for the Cambridge Festival on 'Consciousness at the Edge'. Hear top neuroscientists (and me) discuss sleep, disorders of consciousness and AI consciousness. Link in comments. 6:00pm-7:30pm on Thu 27 Mar McCrum Lecture Theatre, Corpus Christi College

Had a letter on AI published in @theguardian.com this weekend (link in comments). Lots of interesting stuff happening right now on the prospects of conscious AI and what to do about it. #AI #artificialconsciousness

There's a recent open letter that calls for greater precautions around conscious AI. The Metro interviewed me for an article about it here metro.co.uk/.../fears-ai... Some of the quotes are taken out of context but I think it retains the gist of what I said.

Hey! This is my first post on Bluesky. Researchers be interested in my new paper 'Agnosticism About Artificial Consciousness'. Some say that AI could become conscious. Others say it couldn't. I say we don't know then deal with the moral mess this leaves us in! arxiv.org/pdf/2412.13145 Abstract below