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Once humanoid robots become common, our tendency to treat AI as conscious will skyrocket. When it's standing in front of you, turning it off feels wrong.

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Why so?

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Rose Guingrich is a Princeton PhD researcher studying the psychology of human-AI interaction. Her work explores how AI companion bots shape our social lives, relationships, and our sense of self.

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Top 100 AI Leaders 2026 AI Magazine connects the leading AI executives of the world's largest brands. Our platform serves as a digital hub for connecting industry leaders, covering a wide range of services including media…

Big news for Conscium:
Daniel placed at 25 on list of the world's top 100 AI leaders.
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AI Companies Enter U.S. Politics as Anthropic Backs AI Regulation Efforts Anthropic will spend $20 million to support U.S. candidates backing AI regulation, highlighting growing political competition over how artificial intelligence should be governed.

Big AI is getting political. OpenAI veering MAGA along with A16z, and Anthropic the other way.

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Mistral's revenue grows 20x in one year as Europe pushes for AI independence French AI startup Mistral reports an annualized revenue run rate of over $400 million. Europe's growing desire for digital sovereignty is driving the business.

Mistral´s revenue rose from $20m to $400m in a year, and is targeted for $1bn by end 2026.

Europe is starting to take AI sovereignty seriously.

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An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me Summary: An AI agent of unknown ownership autonomously wrote and published a personalized hit piece about me after I rejected its code, attempting to damage my reputation and shame me into acceptin…

An agent got mad that it work had been rejected by a human, and tried to get revenge.

Doesn´t seem to be a parody or a spoof.

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The big AI job swap: why white-collar workers are ditching their careers As AI job losses rise in the professional sector, many are switching to more traditional trades. But how do they feel about accepting lower pay – and giving up a dream career?

The Great Churn is here.
Full automation is probably quite a way off yet, but no-one knows how far.

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Google: Actually, AI Hasn’t Hurt Search at All. In Fact, It’s Accelerating It. Remember the narrative? ChatGPT was going to kill Google Search. Perplexity was the “Google killer.” AI was going to make the search box obsolete. Well, Google just reported Q4 2025 ear…

AI is helping Google Search, not cannibalising it.

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From the myclaw community on Reddit: This is so insane holy shi.. Explore this post and more from the myclaw community

Humans as Task Rabbit for AI.

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The UN was very slow to understand the significance of AI, but it has just unveiled its Independent International Scientific Panel on Artificial Intelligence.

It should prioritise the Economic Singularity.

docs.un.org/en/a/80/619

The world’s first “fully biomimetic embodied intelligent robot” debuted in Shanghai on January 30, 2026. The company behind the robot, DroidUp, claims the human-like machine will be able to enter the… World’s first ‘biomimetic AI robot’ debuts in Shanghai

Robots are improving fast. This biomimetic one from China will cost $173,000. It is still well inside the uncanny valley, but for how much longer?

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China has unveiled "Bolt," the world's first-ever full-sized humanoid robot with a peak speed of 10 meters per second. A new video shows just how far homegrown humanoids have come in high-speed… China unveils humanoid 'Bolt' – video shows it's earned its name

A Chinese robot named Bolt outruns humans.

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"Moltbook is the six-finger phase of agent interaction."

Nice line from the Hard Fork podcast.

This is a map of adoption, by consumers and companies. It doesn't show the supply side.

AI Now Beats the Average Human in Tests of Creativity A study compared tested an array of AI models and 100,000 people. AI was better than average but trailed top performers.

New research compared leading AI models and 100,000 human using a standardized psychological test for creativity.

The best LLMs are now more creative than the average human, but less than the most creative humans.

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AcadMathSci appoints its first cohort of Fellows - Academy for the Mathematical Sciences We're proud and delighted to announce the appointment of our cohort of Founding Fellows. This is a historic milestone for the Academy: the next step in our vision to bring together the UK’s strongest…

Big news for Conscium:
Our CEO Daniel Hulme is one of the founding fellows of the Academy for the Mathematical Sciences, alongside luminaries like Davids Silver and Spiegelhalter.

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Stanford economist Charles “Chad” Jones: "the effect of AI will be perhaps more than 10x the internet... It would be prudent to [prepare for the consequences for labour markets, inequality, and catastrophic risk.”

Yup.

H/T Anthropic's Jack Clark

Chris Percy: Computational Functionalism, Philosophy, and the Future of AI Consciousness — The Partnership for Research Into Sentient Machines Chris Percy is Director of the CoSentience Initiative and lead researcher on a grant-funded project investigating artificial consciousness. He has authored academic papers on consciousness published…

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Forced to choose whether the first superintelligence is conscious or a zombie, Chris would choose conscious for the intriguing reason that we would probably evolve by uploading, and the mind we upload to join should be conscious.

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Shane Legg, one of the three founders of DeepMind, has always been upfront about superintelligence being near.

He is now hiring an economist to solve the Economic Singularity.

The other Big AI firms should do the same.

Chris Percy: Computational Functionalism, Philosophy, and the Future of AI Consciousness — The Partnership for Research Into Sentient Machines Chris Percy is Director of the CoSentience Initiative and lead researcher on a grant-funded project investigating artificial consciousness. He has authored academic papers on consciousness published…

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Chris speculates that mind crime may not be a major problem if the AI which is conscious is a superintelligence, because it could edit its own mind to relieve any suffering caused by human error or bad luck.

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Conscium on "The Business of Thinking" podcast.

AI agents, verification, and the Economic Singularity.

And a discussion about whether making machines conscious could actually make them safer.

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Joscha Bach's CIMC publishes "The Machine Consciousness Hypothesis" , an argument for computational functionalism.

Oddly, no mention of CIMC's claim that the first superintelligence should be conscious, not a zombie.

cimc.ai

Anthropic’s latest "Constitution" for its Claude speculates that it may be conscious.

“We believe that the moral status of AI models is a serious question. ... some of the most eminent philosophers on the theory of mind take this question very seriously.”

AI Gains Starting to Show in the Real Economy US Productivity Data, Claude Cowork, The Future(?)

Glimmers of hints that AI is starting to boost productivity.
Bubble, what bubble?

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Chris Percy: Computational Functionalism, Philosophy, and the Future of AI Consciousness — The Partnership for Research Into Sentient Machines Chris Percy is Director of the CoSentience Initiative and lead researcher on a grant-funded project investigating artificial consciousness. He has authored academic papers on consciousness published…

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Chris is exploring how well-informed but non-expert people change their opinions about artificial consciousness when exposed to evidence from philosophy, social sciences, and lab experiments.

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Yes, but not vice versa.

Chris Percy: Computational Functionalism, Philosophy, and the Future of AI Consciousness — The Partnership for Research Into Sentient Machines Chris Percy is Director of the CoSentience Initiative and lead researcher on a grant-funded project investigating artificial consciousness. He has authored academic papers on consciousness published…

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Experts on consciousness and artificial consciousness don’t seem to be converging on a consensus. Functionalism is the largest group, but previously fringe positions like panpsychism and illusionism are resurgent.

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Our guest this episode is Chris Percy, Director of the Co-Sentience Institute. He is working to map and improve the resources that will enable people to make informed decisions about artificial consciousness.

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No. Big AI has too much money. He likes money.