Articles for tag: AI consciousness, artificial intelligence ethics, cognitive science, emotional AI, machine sentience debate

AI Might Need Emotion to Reach True Consciousness

AI Might Need Emotion to Reach True Consciousness

You’ve probably noticed how smart your virtual assistant has become. It answers questions, schedules meetings, and even tells jokes. Yet something fundamental seems absent. There’s a peculiar emptiness beneath all that cleverness, a hollowness that separates today’s artificial intelligence from anything resembling true awareness. Here’s the thing. What if we’ve been thinking about machine consciousness ...