{"id":229593,"date":"2026-01-22T09:02:48","date_gmt":"2026-01-22T15:02:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/is-ai-really-conscious-or-are-we-bringing-it-to-life"},"modified":"2026-01-22T09:02:48","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T15:02:48","slug":"is-ai-really-conscious-or-are-we-bringing-it-to-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/is-ai-really-conscious-or-are-we-bringing-it-to-life","title":{"rendered":"Is AI really conscious\u2014or are we bringing it to life?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/is-ai-really-conscious-or-are-we-bringing-it-to-life.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In rethinking whether AI is sentient, we are asking bigger questions about cognition, human-machine interaction and even our own consciousness<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In rethinking whether AI is sentient, we are asking bigger questions about cognition, human-machine interaction and even our own consciousness<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-229593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229593","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\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=229593"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229593\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}