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Experts Geoffrey Hinton and Steven Pinker debate the nature of AI consciousness and the potential for controlling advanced machine intelligence. The article explores how emerging brain-computer interface technology may provide new data to help solve long-standing philosophical questions about sentience.
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Understanding whether AI can achieve consciousness is critical for developing safety protocols and ethical frameworks for future autonomous systems.
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Geoffrey Hinton and Steven Pinker were the binary stars of Brian May’s Starmus conference this week. They circled each other like Alpha Centauri A and B, two psychologists at odds in front of the space scientists and astronauts that the Queen guitarist, an astrophysicist himself, had assembled in Tenerife.
On stage, at a stargazing event, in the bus on the way to the observatory – whenever I saw them together, they were going at it, drawn to the question of the hour: can we keep AI under control?
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