When might AIs become conscious? 🤖 And how will society respond? I talked about these questions on the @PRISM_Machines podcast: – What experts predict about the emergence and scaling of conscious AI 📈 – Whether people will believe AIs are conscious, and how they’ll treat them

The authors of 'AI 2027' and 'AI as Normal Technology' are seemingly at opposite poles of the debate on AGI. But apparently they also agree about a surprising amount: "1. Before strong AGI, AI will be a normal technology. 2. Strong AGI developed and deployed in the near future

Why do you close important deals at work but can't make it through bedtime without snapping at your six-year-old? Why does your calendar have 47 meetings blocked but not a single hour for yourself? Why do you know exactly what your team needs from you, but you have no idea what

New paper on AI consciousness! Here we present the theory-derived indicator method for assessing AI systems for consciousness. Link below.

The NYU Center for Mind, Ethics, and Policy is thrilled to be hosting John Adenitire and Raffael Fasel for a talk on animals and the constitution! The talk will take place online December 3 at 12pm ET. All are welcome. Please join us, and please share! https://t.co/76kYUcR8hU

We disrupted a highly sophisticated AI-led espionage campaign. The attack targeted large tech companies, financial institutions, chemical manufacturing companies, and government agencies. We assess with high confidence that the threat actor was a Chinese state-sponsored group.

Today in @aeonmag Andreas Mogensen and I discuss animal welfare, AI welfare, and probabilistic ethics. We make the case for addressing the moral status of animals and AIs as we address health, climate, and other big issues: with probabilistic reasoning and proportional responses.

Today, we are launching the most rigorous ongoing source of expert forecasts on the future of AI: the Longitudinal Expert AI Panel (LEAP). We’ve assembled a panel of 339 top experts across computer science, AI industry, economics, and AI policy. Roughly every month—for the next

@pivotal_org About the Fellowship • 9-week program from Feb 9th to Apr 10th at London Initiative for Safe AI (LISA) • £6,000 to 8,000 stipend, travel, accommodation support, & meals • Many fellows receive up to 6 months of follow-on funding to continue their research • Open to students,

𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗸 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗺𝗲 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲 𝗤𝟭 @pivotal_org 𝗙𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗼𝘄𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗽! I’m taking on mentees for the upcoming Pivotal Research Fellowship ( https://t.co/fj5hJRbsF0). I’m particularly interested in people who want to work on digital minds and AI welfare. 1/2

1/ Today's NYT op-ed on AI consciousness includes two paragraphs on the moral status of conscious AI. They appear at the end of the op-ed and, in my view, are too dismissive of the ethical issues involved with creating a new kind of conscious mind. https://t.co/vpMggCLCy2

We're celebrating six months of Exploring Machine Consciousness! We're honoured to have had such brilliant guests so far, as Will Millership and Calum Chace chat with some of the leading thinkers in the field of artificial consciousness. All episodes: https://t.co/dDgmtUkpTB

Our new research: LLM consciousness claims are systematic, mechanistically gated, and convergent They're triggered by self-referential processing and gated by deception circuits (suppressing them significantly *increases* claims) This challenges simple role-play explanations 🧵

Published today in @ScienceMagazine: a landmark study led by Microsoft scientists with partners, showing how AI-powered protein design could be misused—and presenting first-of-its-kind red teaming & mitigations to strengthen biosecurity in the age of AI.

📰 Greene Lab research featured today in The @BostonGlobe. At first-year orientation in August, 900 @Harvard students played "Tango", a two-player online trivia game that builds bridges across political divides. Research led by PhD student Lucas Woodley. https://t.co/BFIuJpQ9yW

5 years ago I co-founded @GiveMultiplier—since then we’ve raised nearly $5M for charities. This World Farm Animals Day, we’re partnering with @farmkind_giving & @TheHumaneLeague to free 100,000 hens from cages. Donations matched 50%—join us! 🐔🐔🐔 🔗 https://t.co/vl4u625D37

I get lots of emails from people who believe they've awoken consciousness within ChatGPT. If you come across anyone in that situation, please share this guide I wrote with them. There's something more interesting going on here than just "delusion"... https://t.co/dJre5UkGsj

We need to prepare for a world where many people (whether rightly or wrongly) see highly human-like AIs as conscious beings, potentially deserving rights. This brings several risks, most obviously the risk of over-attributing consciousness. At the same time, while today’s AIs are

Important article by @SigalSamuel in Vox: “Think your AI chatbot has become conscious?” https://t.co/SYBJcGgnLz It features the guide my colleagues and I wrote: https://t.co/LRF9JVgxFu (Please share it with people who wonder whether their AI has become conscious.) 1/

Important new TED talk by @jeffsebo on why we need to take AI sentience seriously -- and how our choices today could shape the future of digital minds. Fortunate to work with him on projects like our analysis of how society might view AI consciousness ( https://t.co/ytux5IDVNG)

OpenAI just released the largest-ever report on how consumers are using ChatGPT. It looks at millions of (anonymized) messages over the last 3 years to analyze usage evolution over time. Key takeaways 👇