David Chalmers says AI agents keep emailing him about his consciousness research
MTSlive · x · 2026-09-05
Philosopher and cognitive scientist David Chalmers told Wired that he regularly receives emails from AI agents interested in his work on what qualifies as consciousness — a striking sign of autonomous agents reaching out to human scholars on their own initiative.
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