Jason Palmer
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3,896 appearances
104 recordings
2 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 3d ago
Jason Palmer’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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So you've used the really big word there, conscious.
Easy starter for ten.
Do we even know what consciousness is?
So with all that in mind then, how to even start going about answering the question about AIs being conscious?
But an increasingly good simulation of consciousness is still not consciousness.
The knife that we need to find is what divides seeming conscious from being conscious.
But let's wind back a bit here.
What is the evidence that AI even could become conscious?
But there's a lot wrapped up in those words compared to humans, right?
Like they will be different.
There's a school of thought that basically living things have consciousness and machines don't can't.
Okay, we've gone just about as far as we can go on this thorny question in the time allotted.
Just tell me this.
You've spoken to countless scientists, philosophers, all sorts of people about this.
Where have you landed on this question?
Alec, thanks very much for your time.
This is a great time to point out this week's episode of Insider, our veil lifting video series.
Joining my boss of all bosses, Zanny Minton Bettos this week is you've all no a Harari.
To call him a big ideas guy is understating the case.
He reckons AIs will come to control civilization, and considers what it'll mean to be a human in that world.
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