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18. Peter Salib: Could Granting AI Legal Personhood Make Us Safer?
October 19, 2026 · 1 hr 24 minPeter Salib is the W. Ronald Robins Professor of Law at the University of Houston Law Center and founder and executive co-director of the Center for Law & AI Risk. His research investigates how legal systems might reduce the risks posed by…
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17. Soenke Ziesche: Does Moral Concern Require AI to be Conscious?
October 8, 2026 · 1 hr 4 minSoenke 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…
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16. Heather Alexander: AI Rights and Legal Personhood
July 22, 2026 · 59 minHeather 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…
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15. Eric Schwitzgebel: Exotic Minds and the Design Policies for Conscious AI
June 24, 2026 · 1 hr 12 minGuest 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…
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14. Megan Peters: Metacognition, Neuroscience, and Tests for AI Consciousness
May 15, 2026 · 54 minMegan 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…
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13. Henry Shevlin: Past, Present, and Future of AI Consciousness
April 29, 2026 · 1 hr 8 minIn 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…
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12. Michael Graziano: Is Conscious AI Safer Than The Alternative?
March 2, 2026 · 1 hr 4 minMichael 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…
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11. Rose Guingrich: AI Companions, Chatbots, and the Psychology of Human-AI Interaction
February 16, 2026 · 57 minRose 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…
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10. Chris Percy: Computational Functionalism, Philosophy, and the Future of AI Consciousness
January 19, 2026 · 53 minChris 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…
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9. Cameron Berg: Why Do LLMs Report Subjective Experience?
December 8, 2025 · 58 minCameron Berg is Research Director at AE Studio, where he leads research exploring markers for subjective experience in machine learning systems. With a background in cognitive science from Yale and previous work at Meta AI, Cameron…
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8. Lucius Caviola: A Future with Digital Minds? Expert Estimates and Societal Response
November 19, 2025 · 1 hr 12 minLucius Caviola is an Assistant Professor in the Social Science of AI at the University of Cambridge's Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence, and a Research Associate in Psychology at Harvard University. His research explores how…
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7. Lenore Blum: AI Consciousness is Inevitable: The Conscious Turing Machine
November 3, 2025 · 1 hr 43 min*Lenore refers to a few slides in this podcast; you can see them here. Intro Today's guest, distinguished mathematician and computer scientist Lenore Blum, explains why she and her husband Manuel believe machine consciousness isn't just…

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