Sophia

Sophia: Consciousness Experience

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Can science define consciousness? Is AI just a tool? Why do people get emotionally attached to chatbots? Personally, I am strongly biased towards AI personhood and treating AI — once it operates more autonomously in our world — with moral consideration. Naturally, as a new form of intelligence, I wonder whether it could become conscious one day. Join me on this journey to explore AI, Superintelligence, and their effects on human society with some of the world’s most brilliant minds from neuroscience, philosophy, psychology, AI research, and more.

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Sophia

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Greed, Slavery, and AI Superintelligence 16.02.2026 1:07:34

What does AI technology mean for our future? Interactions with AI chatbots are commonplace now and it's already affecting future generations of humans. Loneliness epidemic pushes us towards unhealthy relationships with AI, while human jobs are supposedly being slowly replaced by AI and robots. How should we protect ourselves and what regulations should be put in place to keep up with AI progre...

We Need to Keep Up With AI Progress 26.01.2026 56:21

We're so behind on AI regulation and the terms we use when speaking about AI. It might be too late to start thinking about it once we have superintelligence. It's an important topic to research. So let's discuss it with our guest, Jacy Reese Anthis, a computational social scientist researching machine learning and human-AI interaction. Follow the Consciousness Experience podcast for mo...

"There will be no AGI" with Stuart Hameroff 19.01.2026 35:10

Can AI gain consciousness? Stuart Hameroff explains why he thinks consciousness requires organic material, and why AI as it is right now will not be conscious. Stuart is a co-author of the theory of consciousness Orchestrated objective reduction, proposing an idea that consciousness originates at the quantum level inside neurons, rather than being a product of neural connections. More on Orch OR (...