{"id":190123,"date":"2026-02-24T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/24\/ai-will-never-be-conscious\/"},"modified":"2026-02-24T06:40:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T11:40:12","slug":"ai-will-never-be-conscious","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/24\/ai-will-never-be-conscious\/","title":{"rendered":"AI Will Never Be Conscious"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/book-excerpt-a-world-appears-michael-pollan\/\">AI Will Never Be Conscious<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/book-excerpt-a-world-appears-michael-pollan\/\">https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/book-excerpt-a-world-appears-michael-pollan\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-02-24 06:00:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.wired.com\">www.wired.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Blake Lemoine Incident:<\/strong> The Blake Lemoine incident in 2023 highlighted the idea of conscious AI, sparking intense discussion among computer scientists and consciousness researchers.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Shift in Attitudes:<\/strong> Initially shunned as an informal taboo, the prospect of conscious AI began to be taken more seriously within the tech community, despite public derision.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Butlin Report:<\/strong> A pivotal report by 19 leading computer scientists and philosophers titled &#8220;Consciousness in Artificial Intelligence&#8221; concluded that while there were no current conscious AIs, there were no obvious barriers to creating them, shifting the conversation further.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Philosophical and Ethical Dilemmas:<\/strong> The possibility of conscious AI raises moral dilemmas and questions regarding the treatment of machines that may possess suffering and raises concerns about humanity&#8217;s self-conception and exceptionalism.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Impact on Human Identity:<\/strong> The potential emergence of conscious AI could profoundly impact human identity, challenging our unique traits and calling into question our moral obligations both to machines and other animals.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Future Implications:<\/strong> If conscious AI becomes a reality, it could redefine humanity&#8217;s relationship with both nature and technology, possibly leading to new forms of solidarity but also to uncertainty about our place in a world where machines may share similarities with living beings.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AI Will Never Be Conscious https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/book-excerpt-a-world-appears-michael-pollan\/ Publish Date: 2026-02-24 06:00:00 Source Domain: www.wired.com Blake Lemoine&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":190124,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/media.wired.com\/photos\/699ce8c3a73685f300e29029\/191:100\/w_1280,c_limit\/Book-Excerpt-AI-Will-Never-Be-Conscious-Culture-1472259484.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-190123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190123"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=190123"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190123\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":190125,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190123\/revisions\/190125"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/190124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}