{"id":236881,"date":"2026-05-10T16:11:28","date_gmt":"2026-05-10T21:11:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/iain-mcgilchrist-can-ai-become-conscious"},"modified":"2026-05-10T16:11:28","modified_gmt":"2026-05-10T21:11:28","slug":"iain-mcgilchrist-can-ai-become-conscious","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/iain-mcgilchrist-can-ai-become-conscious","title":{"rendered":"Iain McGilchrist \u2014 Can AI Become Conscious?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2ldZ_TS-vxg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Follow Closer To Truth on Instagram for updates, announcements, and videos: <a href=\"https:\/\/shorturl.at\/EzYo9\">https:\/\/shorturl.at\/EzYo9<\/a><\/p>\n<p>AI consciousness, its possibility or probability, has burst into public debate, eliciting all kinds of issues from AI ethics and rights to AI going rogue and harming humanity. We explore diverse views; we argue that AI consciousness depends on theories of consciousness.<\/p>\n<p>Make a donation to Closer To Truth to help us continue exploring the world\u2019s deepest questions without the need for paywalls: <a href=\"https:\/\/shorturl.at\/OnyRq\">https:\/\/shorturl.at\/OnyRq<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Iain McGilchrist FRSA is a British psychiatrist, philosopher and neuroscientist who wrote the 2009 book The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World.<\/p>\n<p>Closer To Truth, hosted by Robert Lawrence Kuhn and directed by Peter Getzels, presents the world\u2019s greatest thinkers exploring humanity\u2019s deepest questions. Discover fundamental issues of existence. Engage new and diverse ways of thinking. Appreciate intense debates. Share your own opinions. Seek your own answers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Follow Closer To Truth on Instagram for updates, announcements, and videos: https:\/\/shorturl.at\/EzYo9 AI consciousness, its possibility or probability, has burst into public debate, eliciting all kinds of issues from AI ethics and rights to AI going rogue and harming humanity. We explore diverse views; we argue that AI consciousness depends on theories of consciousness. Make [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-236881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ethics","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236881","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=236881"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236881\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}