Gary Marcus, a scientist and prolific author on AI, was typical: "The fundamental problem here is that Dawkins doesn't reflect on how these outputs have been generated. Claude's outputs are the ...

The famous atheist Richard Dawkins has confessed a rather unusual new faith, after becoming convinced that artificial intelligence (AI) is conscious. The biologist was converted to this new belief ...

When Richard Dawkins’s first blockbuster book was published half a century ago, few genes had ever been sequenced or studied ...

Few living thinkers have been as influential—or controversial—as Richard Dawkins. An evolutionary biologist by training, Dawkins rose to prominence with his 1976 book The Selfish Gene, which ...

And that AI therefore very likely cannot be conscious.