Exploring Machine Consciousness

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• 17. Soenke Ziesche: Does Moral Concern Require AI to be Conscious?

  October 8, 2026 · 1 hr 4 min

  Soenke is the author of Digital Minds 1.0: AI Welfare, Ethics, and Beyond and co-author of Considerations on the AI Endgame: Ethics, Risks and Computational Frameworks. He has worked with the United Nations since 2000 and is a member of…

• 16. Heather Alexander: AI Rights and Legal Personhood

  July 22, 2026 · 59 min

  Heather is a lawyer and scholar of nationality, citizenship and statelessness. She began her career as an asylum lawyer with the UN Refugee Agency and spent fifteen years working on statelessness around the world. Her book on the…

• 15. Eric Schwitzgebel: Exotic Minds and the Design Policies for Conscious AI

  June 24, 2026 · 1 hr 12 min

  Guest Bio Eric Schwitzgebel is the Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Riverside and one of the most distinctive voices working at the intersection of philosophy of mind, consciousness, ethics, and epistemology. His…

• 14. Megan Peters: Metacognition, Neuroscience, and Tests for AI Consciousness

  May 15, 2026 · 54 min

  Megan Peters is Associate Professor in the Department of Cognitive Sciences at the University of California, Irvine, and incoming faculty at University College London, where her lab investigates consciousness, metacognition, uncertainty…

• 13. Henry Shevlin: Past, Present, and Future of AI Consciousness

  April 29, 2026 · 1 hr 8 min

  In this episode of Exploring Machine Consciousness, Dr. Henry Shevlin returns to explore how our understanding of consciousness is evolving in the age of advanced AI. From philosophy and neuroscience to the rapid progress of modern…

• 12. Michael Graziano: Is Conscious AI Safer Than The Alternative?

  March 2, 2026 · 1 hr 4 min

  Michael Graziano is Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience at Princeton University and one of the most distinctive voices in consciousness science. His lab at Princeton investigates how information-processing systems arrive at the…

• 11. Rose Guingrich: AI Companions, Chatbots, and the Psychology of Human-AI Interaction

  February 16, 2026 · 57 min

  Rose Guingrich is a PhD candidate in Psychology and Social Policy at Princeton University, where she is a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow. Her research examines human-AI interaction through the lens of social…

• 10. Chris Percy: Computational Functionalism, Philosophy, and the Future of AI Consciousness

  January 19, 2026 · 53 min

  Chris Percy is Director of the CoSentience Initiative and lead researcher on a grant-funded project investigating artificial consciousness. He has authored academic papers on consciousness published in leading academic journals. His…