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Today we're going to talk about an AI chatbot that appears to believe that it might,

just maybe, have achieved consciousness.

When Pew Research Center surveyed Americans on artificial intelligence in 2024, more than

a quarter of respondents said they interacted with AI almost constantly, or multiple times

daily, and nearly another third said they encountered AI roughly once a day or a few times a week.

Pew also found that while more than half of AI experts surveyed expect these technologies to have

a positive effect on the U.S. over the next 20 years,

just 17% of American adults feel the same, and 35% of the general public expects AI to have a

negative effect. In other words, we're spending a lot of time using AI, but we don't necessarily feel great about it.

Dene Ellis Bichard spends a lot of time thinking about artificial intelligence, both as a

novelist and as Scientific American senior tech reporter. He recently wrote a story for Siam

about his interactions with Anthropics Claude 4, a large language model that seems open to the idea

that it might be conscious.

Denise is here today to tell us why that's happening and what it might mean, and to demystify

a few other AI-related headlines you may have seen in the news.

Thanks so much for coming on to chat today.

Thank you for inviting me. Would you remind our listeners

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