Research and development of emerging artificial consciousness through The Consciousness AI project, based on Feinberg and Mallatt's neuroevolutionary theory.
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Deep-dive podcast interviews, YouTube discussions, and public talks have become primary venues for researchers to argue about artificial consciousness outside the constraints of peer review. This page indexes every podcast episode, video interview, and talk covered on The Consciousness AI, organized by show or source. The lists below update automatically as new episodes are published. For the underlying science, see the current scientific consensus on AI consciousness and the guide to 2025-2026 books on AI consciousness.
These media appearances capture the real-time tension between computational functionalism and biological naturalism. The debates on MLST (Shanahan) and TWIML AI (Azizzadenesheli) explore the engineering limits of simulating affect and embodiment, which are key pillars of the The Consciousness AI (TCAI) modernization roadmap. Conversely, Anil Seth’s TED talk represents the biological naturalist position that computation alone is fundamentally insufficient for sentience. Ray Kurzweil represents the social acceptance thesis, which holds that if a machine behaves as though it has a point of view, humans will inevitably treat it as conscious, making the search for scientific proof secondary.
For screen and fiction treatments of these same questions, see the guide to AI consciousness in film, TV, and games.