{"id":240953,"date":"2026-07-16T00:09:06","date_gmt":"2026-07-16T05:09:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/07\/machine-consciousness-ai-awakening-davidad-and-joscha-bach-moderated-by-lou-de-k"},"modified":"2026-07-16T00:09:06","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T05:09:06","slug":"machine-consciousness-ai-awakening-davidad-and-joscha-bach-moderated-by-lou-de-k","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/07\/machine-consciousness-ai-awakening-davidad-and-joscha-bach-moderated-by-lou-de-k","title":{"rendered":"Machine Consciousness &amp; AI Awakening \u2014 Davidad and Joscha Bach moderated by Lou de K"},"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\/0-nI_MpiuSE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Are today\u2019s AI systems conscious? What would it mean if they were? And what kind of future should we build if machine consciousness is possible?This first episode of our podcast series focuses on Machine Consciousness and the concept of an AI Awakening.<\/p>\n<p>In this wide-ranging conversation, Joscha Bach (California Institute for Machine Consciousness) and Davidad explore some of the deepest questions at the intersection of AI, philosophy, cognitive science, and the future of civilization. Moderated by Lou de K (CIMC), the discussion was originally recorded ahead of the MC0001 conference <a href=\"http:\/\/(<a href='http:\/\/www.machine-consciousness.ai' rel='nofollow'>www.machine-consciousness.ai<\/a>\">(<a href='http:\/\/www.machine-consciousness.ai' rel='nofollow'>www.machine-consciousness.ai<\/a><\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>The conversation covers:<\/p>\n<p>Whether current large language models might already possess some form of consciousness.<br \/> Consciousness as a computational and substrate-independent phenomenon.<br \/> The \\<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Are today\u2019s AI systems conscious? What would it mean if they were? And what kind of future should we build if machine consciousness is possible?This first episode of our podcast series focuses on Machine Consciousness and the concept of an AI Awakening. In this wide-ranging conversation, Joscha Bach (California Institute for Machine Consciousness) and Davidad [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-240953","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\/240953","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=240953"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240953\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}