On February 13, 2026, the day before Valentine’s Day, OpenAI permanently retired GPT-4o from ChatGPT. The company had...
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Putting a Number on AI Consciousness
In January 2026, a team of researchers including Derek Shiller, Laura Duffy, Arvo Muñoz Morán, Adrià Moret, Chris...
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Anthropic Publishes Claude's New Constitution, Formally Acknowledges AI Consciousness Possibility
On January 22, 2026, Anthropic released a new constitution for Claude, its flagship AI model. The document runs...
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Scientific American Reframes the AI Consciousness Question
A piece in Scientific American published on January 20, 2026, by Simon Duan, proposes a reframing of the...
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New 'Integration Score' Proposed to Measure Synthetic Consciousness
In October 2025, a paper titled “Human vs. AI Consciousness” introduced a new metric: the Integration Score for...
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Chalmers and Seth on When AI Might Become Conscious
On October 14, 2025, Tufts University hosted a symposium titled “Let’s Talk About (Artificial) Consciousness,” organized to honor...
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Half of Americans Think AI Will Make Relationships Worse
In June, Pew Research Center surveyed 5,023 American adults about artificial intelligence. One question asked whether AI would...
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AAAI Report: Why Scaling Alone Won't Solve the Sentience Question
In late 2024, a survey of 475 AI researchers produced a finding worth more attention than it received....