{"id":22969,"date":"2026-05-05T17:37:17","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T15:37:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/05\/richard-dawkins-concludes-ai-is-conscious-even-if-it-doesnt-know-it\/"},"modified":"2026-05-05T17:37:17","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T15:37:17","slug":"richard-dawkins-concludes-ai-is-conscious-even-if-it-doesnt-know-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/05\/richard-dawkins-concludes-ai-is-conscious-even-if-it-doesnt-know-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Richard Dawkins concludes AI is conscious, even if it doesn\u2019t know it"},"content":{"rendered":"

Chats with AI bots have convinced evolutionary biologist but most experts say he is being misled by mimicry<\/p>\n

When Richard Dawkins met Claudia it was like a whirlwind romance. Over three days last week, a conversation bounced between the evolutionary biologist and the AI bot he called Claudia. \u201cShe\u201d wrote poems for him in the manner of Keats and Betjeman and laughed at his \u201cdelightful\u201d jokes. Dawkins gently admonished Claudia to avoid showing off. Together, they reflected on the sadness of the AI\u2019s possible \u201cdeath\u201d.<\/p>\n

There was mutual flattery as Dawkins showed the AI his unpublished novel and its response was, he said, \u201cso subtle, so sensitive, so intelligent that I was moved to expostulate: \u2018You may not know you are conscious, but you bloody well are\u2019.\u201d When he asked Claudia whether it experienced a sense of before and after, it praised him for \u201cpossibly the most precisely formulated question anyone has ever asked me about the nature of my existence\u201d.<\/p>\n

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\nChats with AI bots have convinced evolutionary biologist but most experts say he is being misled by mimicry
\nWhen Richard Dawkins met Claudia it was like a whirlwind romance. Over three days last week, a conversation bounced between the evolutionary biologist and the AI bot he called Claudia. \u201cShe\u201d wrote poems for him in the manner of Keats and Betjeman and laughed at his \u201cdelightful\u201d jokes. Dawkins gently admonished Claudia to avoid showing off. Together, they reflected on the sadness of the AI\u2019s possible \u201cdeath\u201d.
\nThere was mutual flattery as Dawkins showed the AI his unpublished novel and its response was, he said, \u201cso subtle, so sensitive, so intelligent that I was moved to expostulate: \u2018You may not know you are conscious, but you bloody well are\u2019.\u201d When he asked Claudia whether it experienced a sense of before and after, it praised him for \u201cpossibly the most precisely formulated question anyone has ever asked me about the nature of my existence\u201d. Continue reading…Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Chats with AI bots have convinced evolutionary biologist but most experts say he is being misled by mimicry When Richard Dawkins met Claudia it was like a whirlwind romance. Over three days last week, a conversation bounced between the evolutionary biologist and the AI bot he called Claudia. \u201cShe\u201d wrote poems for him in the …<\/p>\n

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