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Perspectives on Machine Consciousness

Perspectives on Machine Consciousness

Chace, Calum
Lappas, Ted

Paperback

ApplicationsGeneral Computers

PREORDER - Expected ship date September 23, 2026

ISBN10: 1041282346
ISBN13: 9781041282341
Publisher: CRC Press
Published: Sep 23 2026
Pages: 324
Weight: 1.09
Height: 0.73 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

Perspectives on Machine Consciousness asks whether any AIs are conscious today, whether any future ones could be conscious, how we could know, and what implications machine consciousness would have for us and for them.

As AI improves rapidly in performance and capability, these questions are becoming increasingly important. We do not fully understand how AIs work, and even some of the leading LLM developers say they cannot be sure that today's models are not sentient, though many people are forming relationships with them, sometimes intimate ones. The book explores consciousness alongside our interactions with AI, including the critical need to avoid committing mind crime by causing artificial minds to suffer, as well as considering that if and when superintelligence arrives, its enormous effect on humanity may be significantly determined by whether or not it is conscious. The authors show that machines becoming conscious means we may learn a great deal about our own consciousness - arguably the most important, and yet most mysterious, thing about us.

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