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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. Danie Ellis Bischard 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.

Dini is here today to tell us why that's happening idea that it might be conscious.

Dini 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.

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