Consciousness and Artificial Intelligence
Consciousness and Artificial Intelligence is an interdisciplinary subfield that explores the profound and controversial possibility of creating machines that possess genuine consciousness, including subjective experience, self-awareness, and qualia. Bridging computer science, which questions if consciousness is computable, with philosophy of mind and neuroscience, this area investigates the theoretical requirements and potential architectures for sentient AI. Central to this pursuit are the immense challenges of not only designing systems that could give rise to an inner world but also developing a reliable method to verify its existence, raising deep ethical and philosophical questions about the nature of mind and the responsibilities of creating artificial beings.