{"id":243893,"date":"2026-09-10T21:08:06","date_gmt":"2026-09-11T02:08:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/no-ai-isnt-conscious"},"modified":"2026-09-10T21:08:06","modified_gmt":"2026-09-11T02:08:06","slug":"no-ai-isnt-conscious","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/no-ai-isnt-conscious","title":{"rendered":"No, AI isn\u2019t conscious"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/no-ai-isnt-conscious.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Research from the University of Bradford and RIT shows that AI systems aren\u2019t conscious, even when they appear to be. Tests adapted from human consciousness research revealed that AI can produce \u201cconscious\u2011like\u201d signals even when degraded, highlighting why complexity doesn\u2019t equal awareness and why claims of conscious AI are misleading.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Research from the University of Bradford and RIT shows that AI systems aren\u2019t conscious, even when they appear to be. Tests adapted from human consciousness research revealed that AI can produce \u201cconscious\u2011like\u201d signals even when degraded, highlighting why complexity doesn\u2019t equal awareness and why claims of conscious AI are misleading.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-243893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243893","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=243893"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243893\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}