DeepMind Philosopher Discusses Whether Chatbots Are Conscious
dioscuri · x · 2026-08-26
The Prosthetic Gods podcast features Henry Shevlin, DeepMind's first in-house philosopher, discussing whether AI systems are conscious. Shevlin argues that consciousness in animals and machines is not settled by a single test but by the slow accumulation of behavioral and mechanistic evidence. The conversation covers Ted Chiang's essay, spider perception, and Anthropic's constitutional AI project.
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