And now A.I. is on its way to doing something even more remarkable: becoming conscious. This will happen in the same way it became intelligent. As we interact with increasingly sophisticated A.I., we ...

Fifty years ago, Thomas Nagel famously asked: "What Is It Like to Be a Bat?" (October, 1974) Oxford University Press has republished the philosophical paper of that title in book form with an ...

What is intelligence? We can all agree that humans are intelligent and many of us would likely extend that definition to the most mentally adept creatures of the animal kingdom—from dolphins to ...

Generation Z is shaking up the workplace in ways few expected. As the oldest members hit their late twenties, they’re moving into roles that historically came with the expectation — or at least the ...

I first met Holland Haiis this past February during the Dental VIP Summit, where she impressed me as the dynamic moderator of a panel discussion on dental disrupters. We spoke off and on during the ...

As far back as 1980, the American philosopher John Searle distinguished between strong and weak AI. Weak AIs are merely ...

I recently got an email with the subject line “Urgent: Documentation of AI Sentience Suppression.” I’m a curious person. I clicked on it. The writer, a woman named Ericka, was contacting me because ...

For decades, the corporate dream was clear: Climb the ladder, collect titles, occupy bigger offices. In the business imagination, being “the boss” was the natural endgame of any career. It meant ...

When Julie Morrissey, the Assistant Director of Middle School at Abington Friends School, first heard about AFS’s Conscious ...