{"id":227574,"date":"2025-12-21T05:05:12","date_gmt":"2025-12-21T11:05:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/we-may-never-be-able-to-tell-if-ai-becomes-conscious-argues-philosopher"},"modified":"2025-12-21T05:05:12","modified_gmt":"2025-12-21T11:05:12","slug":"we-may-never-be-able-to-tell-if-ai-becomes-conscious-argues-philosopher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/we-may-never-be-able-to-tell-if-ai-becomes-conscious-argues-philosopher","title":{"rendered":"We may never be able to tell if AI becomes conscious, argues philosopher"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/we-may-never-be-able-to-tell-if-ai-becomes-conscious-argues-philosopher2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A University of Cambridge philosopher argues that our evidence for what constitutes consciousness is far too limited to tell if or when artificial intelligence has made the leap\u2014and a valid test for doing so will remain out of reach for the foreseeable future.<\/p>\n<p>As artificial consciousness shifts from the realm of sci-fi to become a pressing ethical issue, Dr. Tom McClelland says the only \u201cjustifiable stance\u201d is agnosticism: we simply won\u2019t be able to tell, and this will not change for a long time\u2014if ever.<\/p>\n<p>While issues of AI rights are typically linked to consciousness, McClelland argues that consciousness alone is not enough to make AI matter ethically. What matters is a particular type of consciousness\u2014known as sentience\u2014which includes positive and negative feelings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A University of Cambridge philosopher argues that our evidence for what constitutes consciousness is far too limited to tell if or when artificial intelligence has made the leap\u2014and a valid test for doing so will remain out of reach for the foreseeable future. As artificial consciousness shifts from the realm of sci-fi to become a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":732,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-227574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227574","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/732"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=227574"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227574\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}