Casper WilstrupinMachine ConsciousnessWith Artificial Intelligence, Philosophy of Mind Has Become an Experimental ScienceTime to move philosophers into the lab. AI is making theories of consciousness testable.12 min read·Sep 10, 2023--40--40
Casper WilstrupinMachine ConsciousnessEnding the age of the AI oracleOr how we can safely benefit from AI without risking Eliezer Yudkowsky’s doomsday scenario of human extinction.6 min read·Jul 12, 2023--1--1
Casper WilstrupinMachine ConsciousnessWe Know Exactly What Consciousness Is — Don’t Let Anyone Tell You OtherwiseIn this article, I invite you to conduct a thought experiment to convince you that you — and science — know exactly what consciousness is.3 min read·Jun 7, 2023--187--187
Casper WilstrupinMachine ConsciousnessThe Implications of Conscious AI: A Leap Into the Unknown68% of 2300 respondents, predominantly from the UK and Ireland, believe that AI systems are either already conscious or soon will be.4 min read·Jun 5, 2023--9--9
Casper WilstrupinMachine ConsciousnessWelcome, New WritersWe are happy to welcome writers who are genuinely passionate about the topics explored in Machine Consciousness. Whether you are an expert…2 min read·Jun 3, 2023--2--2
Casper WilstrupinMachine ConsciousnessObjective Reality Doesn’t Exist: It is Time to Embrace it and Move OnThe shift towards a unified, observer-dependent reality forces us to let go — once and for all — of the idea of objective reality8 min read·May 26, 2023--53--53
Casper WilstrupinMachine ConsciousnessThe Single Subject: Exploring Connectedness in Physics and ConsciousnessWhat is required for an AI to experience reality as a single conscious subject? About quantum effects and Orch OR3 min read·May 24, 2023--9--9
Casper WilstrupinMachine ConsciousnessEphemeral Existence: What is missing for Consciousness in LLMsLarge language models (LLMs), like GPT-4 or ChatGPT, are fascinating and powerful tools that have taken the world by storm, opening…2 min read·May 17, 2023--5--5
Casper WilstrupinMachine ConsciousnessFrom Anthropic to Technoanthropic: A New Framework for Understanding Our AI FutureThe Technoanthropic Principle propose that the conditions for the emergence of AGI, much like the conditions for the existence of …4 min read·May 14, 2023--2--2
Casper WilstrupinMachine ConsciousnessOn AI and AlignmentWe fail to grasp what it really means to be smarter than humans, because we have never encountered the phenomenon before.2 min read·May 10, 2023----