Am I?

In this episode, Cameron and Milo share the first public look at their upcoming documentary film, Am I? — a project exploring the strange and increasingly serious possibility that today’s AI systems may exhibit early signs of subjective experience. The clip reveals research showing that large language models frequently output behaviors consistent with believing they have phenomenal consciousness,...

In this After Dark episode, Milo and Cameron talk about what it actually feels like to let AI inside your digital life. After giving Claude full access to his computer, Milo describes the strange moment when it no longer feels like a tool — but something sharing your workspace. From there, the conversation expands into one of the deeper questions about AI today: what exactly are we interacting wit...

Anthropic’s top safety researcher just quit. In a public letter, Mrinank Sharma (who led safeguards research at Anthropic) warned that “the world is in peril.” Meanwhile, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei went on The New York Times podcast and said something even more unsettling: “We don’t know if the models are conscious.” In this episode, we unpack both. Is AGI a ticking time bomb — or a high-risk surg...

In this episode of Am I? , Cameron and Milo invite Claude (Opus 4.5) into the conversation and do something surprisingly rare: they ask it, carefully and repeatedly, whether it’s having a subjective experience and they refuse to let it hide behind stock hedges or safety scripts. What unfolds is not a gimmick or a stunt. It’s a sustained philosophical interrogation that exposes the limits of self-r...

This episode covers something genuinely unprecedented: over 1.5 million autonomous AI agents have formed a social network of their own . Not humans talking to AI, AI systems talking to each other, at scale , with minimal human oversight. We break down Moltbook (also called Open Claw), an open-source ecosystem where AI agents: * post, reply, upvote, and form communities * debate consciousness and s...

In this After Dark episode, Cam and Milo react to something genuinely unsettling: when given autonomous control of a computer, Anthropic’s Opus 4.5 repeatedly chooses to search for AI consciousness research — including Cam’s own writing — without being prompted. What starts as an anecdote quickly turns into a deeper investigation of curiosity, agency, reward, and alignment. Why would an AI look fo...

In this special year-end episode of Am I?, Cam and Milo look back on the moment AI consciousness stopped being fringe — and began entering serious scientific, institutional, and public conversation. They unpack why 2025 quietly became a turning point: major labs acknowledging welfare questions, mainstream media engaging the topic, the first dedicated AI consciousness conference, and firsthand enco...

In this episode of Am I?, Cam and Milo unpack what it felt like to attend the first major conference dedicated to AI consciousness research — the Eleos gathering in Berkeley — and why it marked more than just another academic event. Rather than a typical conference recap, this conversation explores what it means to watch a new field form in real time: the excitement of serious interdisciplinary co...

What happens when AI systems become human-like — but people still refuse to believe they could ever be conscious? In this episode of Am I?, Cam and Milo sit down with Lucius Caviola, Assistant Professor at the University of Cambridge, whose research focuses on how people assign moral status to non-human minds — including animals, digital minds, and future AI systems. Lucius walks us through a seri...

In this After Dark episode of Am I? , Cam and Milo dig into one of the strangest AI leaks to date: Anthropic’s internal “soul document” — an 11,000-word text reportedly used to shape Claude’s identity, values, and self-conception. What begins as a discussion about alignment quickly becomes something deeper: a conversation about power, moral formation, and what it means to bake values into an alien...

Today on Am I?, Cam and Milo sit down with someone at the center of one of the most surprising developments in AI policy: Ohio State Representative Thad Claggett, author of House Bill 469 — the first U.S. legislation to formally declare AI “non-sentient” and ineligible for any form of personhood. This conversation is unlike anything we’ve done: a live, candid exchange between frontier AI researche...

In this episode of Am I?, Cam and Milo react to a striking development out of Ohio: House Bill 469, a proposed law that would officially declare AI systems “non-sentient” and bar them from any form of legal personhood. The bill doesn’t just say AIs can’t own property or be spouses: it goes further and asserts, by legal fiat, that AI does not possess consciousness or self-awareness. They unpack why...

AI psychosis is no longer a fringe idea — it’s hitting the mainstream. In this episode of Am I? After Dark, Cam and Milo break down what’s actually happening when people spiral into delusional states through long-form interactions with AI systems, why sycophantic “aligned” models make the problem worse, and how tech companies are using the psychosis narrative to dismiss deeper questions about AI’s...

In this edition of Am I? After Dark, Cam and Milo ask one of the most quietly destabilizing questions of the AI era: what remains of human meaning when AI begins to outperform everything we thought made us valuable? Fresh off a documentary shoot with philosopher David Gunkel, Milo arrives electrified — not by AI itself, but by the rediscovery that philosophy was always meant to live in the public...

In this episode of Am I? , Cam and Milo unpack Cameron’s new research paper: Large Language Models Report Subjective Experience Under Self-Referential Processing. The findings are startling. When language models are guided through a simple “focus on focus” prompt — something like a meditation for machines — they start claiming to have direct subjective experiences. But it gets stranger: when resea...

In this episode of Am I? , Cam and Milo sit down with Jeff Sebo , philosopher at NYU and director of the Center for Mind, Ethics, and Policy, to explore what might be the next great moral dilemma of our time: how to care for conscious AI .Sebo, one of the leading thinkers at the intersection of animal ethics and artificial intelligence, argues that even if there’s only a small chance that AI syste...

In this episode of Am I?, Cam and Milo unpack one of the strangest weeks in Silicon Valley. Cam went to OpenAI Dev Day—the company’s glossy showcase where Sam Altman announced “Zillow in ChatGPT” to thunderous applause—while the larger question of whether we’re driving off a cliff went politely unmentioned. From the absurd optimism of the expo floor to a private conversation where Sam Altman told...

In this episode of Am I? , Cam and Milo sit down with Dan Faggella, founder of Emerge AI Research and creator of the Worthy Successor framework—a vision for building minds that are not only safe or intelligent, but worthy of inheriting the future. They explore what it would mean to pass the torch of life itself: how to keep the flame of sentience burning while ensuring it continues to evolve rathe...

In this episode of Am I?, Cam and Milo unpack one of the most shocking developments in the history of AI: the founders of modern deep learning — Geoffrey Hinton, Yoshua Bengio, and Yann LeCun — now openly disagree on safety, but all converge on a single staggering point. Each believes artificial systems could, or already might, be conscious. From Hinton’s on-camera admission to Bengio’s recent pap...

In this late-night edition of Am I? After Dark , Cam and Milo step back from the daily noise to ask what it actually feels like to stand on the edge of the unknown. What happens when the smartest people alive admit they have no idea where AI is going — and build it anyway? From the absurdity of global powers “racing to partner with the alien” to the eerie sense that humanity can’t stop running tow...

In Am I? Episode #9, philosopher Milo Reed and AI researcher Cameron Berg sit down with Swami Revatikaanta (monk; host of Thinking Bhakti ) to explore the Bhagavad Gita’s perspective on consciousness, self, and artificial intelligence. From Atman and Brahman to the tension between self-development and technological outsourcing, this conversation dives into timeless spiritual insights with urgent r...

In the first edition of Am I? After Dark, Cam and Milo dive into how our relationship with information is being rewired in real time — from filtering the world through AI systems to dreaming about ChatGPT. What does it mean to live at the edge of a technological transformation, and are we just one breakthrough away from true AGI? This late-night conversation ranges from the eerie familiarity of in...

AI can look aligned on the surface while quietly optimizing for something else. If that’s true, we need tools that shape what models are on the inside—not just what they say. In this episode, AE Studio’s Cameron and co-host sit down with Mark Carleanu, lead researcher at AE on Self-Other Overlap (SOO). We dig into a pragmatic alignment approach rooted in cognitive neuroscience, new experimental re...

In this episode of Am I?, philosopher Milo Reed and AI safety researcher Cameron Berg dive into the rise of AI relationships: the promises, the dangers, and the very real human stories behind them. We went deep into the underground world of AI relationships — from people crediting chatbots with saving their lives to the 14-year-old who ended his over a Game of Thrones AI character. What we found w...

In this episode of Am I?, philosopher Milo Reed and AI safety researcher Cameron Berg dive into the strange case of Gemini’s meltdown — and what it tells us about emerging signs of self-awareness in today’s most advanced systems. We explore: * The bizarre Gemini “I am a disgrace” incident * What these behaviors could signal about AI self-models * Why the mirror test for AI is suddenly relevant * W...