Casper WilstrupWith Artificial Intelligence, Philosophy of Mind Has Become an Experimental ScienceTime to move philosophers into the lab. AI is making theories of consciousness testable.Sep 10, 202341Sep 10, 202341
Casper WilstrupEnding the age of the AI oracleOr how we can safely benefit from AI without risking Eliezer Yudkowsky’s doomsday scenario of human extinction.Jul 12, 20232Jul 12, 20232
Casper WilstrupWe 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.Jun 7, 2023205Jun 7, 2023205
Casper WilstrupThe 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.Jun 5, 20239Jun 5, 20239
Casper WilstrupWelcome, New WritersWe are happy to welcome writers who are genuinely passionate about the topics explored in Machine Consciousness. Whether you are an expert…Jun 3, 20233Jun 3, 20233
Casper WilstrupObjective 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 realityMay 26, 202354May 26, 202354
Casper WilstrupThe 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 ORMay 24, 20239May 24, 20239
Casper WilstrupEphemeral 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…May 17, 20235May 17, 20235
Casper WilstrupFrom 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 …May 14, 20232May 14, 20232
Casper WilstrupOn AI and AlignmentWe fail to grasp what it really means to be smarter than humans, because we have never encountered the phenomenon before.May 10, 2023May 10, 2023