The call for commentary proposals for my new paper 'Conscious artificial intelligence and biological naturalism' is now open at BBS. Deadline is June 12th.
Scientist, Author, Speaker
The science of consciousness
Understanding the biological basis of conscious experience is one of the great challenges for 21st Century Science.
A 2021 Book of the Year (New Statesman, Economist, Bloomberg, Five Books), a 2021 Science Book of the Year (Guardian, Financial Times). Being You is out now in hardback, paperback, ebook, and audio.
Interviews and conversations.
Academic and public engagement projects.
What’s coming up and what’s happened.
Consciousness at TED
Your brain hallucinates your conscious reality
My main-stage TED talk has more than 14 million views.
"Inside the big bet on consciousness". My take on the adversarial collaboration between two consciousness theories, in Nautilus.
What gives meaning to life? I asked my Mum .. in today's Guardian (along with 14 others)
"A science of consciousness beyond pseudo-science and pseudo-consciousness" Our comment (Àlex Gómez-Marin & me) on the IIT clash; out now in Nature Neuroscience.
I'm delighted to make the Clarivate 'Highly Cited' researcher list, for the fifth year running - along with 5 other Sussex academics:
New paper in PLoS Biology on the ethics of brain-computer interfaces for cognitive enhancment - with Emma Gordon.
I'm looking forward to delivering the 2024 Charles Simonyi Lecture in Oxford next Friday, Nov 1st, at the wonderful Oxford Playhouse, and hosted by Marcus Du Sautoy 🙏🏽. The title is 'consciousness in humans and in other things', kick off is at 5pm, and tickets still available here.
Deadline is today (though there may be one or two days grace for submissions) 👇🏽
1/ Can AI be conscious? My @BBSjournal target article on ‘Conscious AI and biological naturalism’ is now open for commentary proposals. Deadline is June 12. Take-home: real artificial consciousness is very unlikely along current trajectories. https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/behavioral-and-brain-sciences/announcements/call-for-papers/call-for-commentary-proposals-conscious-artificial-intelligence-and-biological-naturalism
1/n 🚀Introducing #NSDImagery at #CVPR25! The first benchmark dataset that links ultra-high-res 7T #fMRI to mental imagery, extending the iconic Natural Scenes Dataset from what we see to what we imagine.
1/ Good to see @OpenAI @joannejang @merettm thinking about #AI consciousness, & distinguishing 'perceived' from 'ontological' machine consciousness. I make this distinction in this @BBSJournal article - it would be great to get a comment from @OpenAI
some thoughts on human-ai relationships and how we're approaching them at openai
it's a long blog post --
tl;dr we build models to serve people first. as more people feel increasingly connected to ai, we’re prioritizing research into how this impacts their emotional well-being.…