What would it take to convince a neuroscientist that an AI is conscious?
What would it take to convince a neuroscientist that an AI is conscious?
- November 11, 2025
- Megan Peters, cognitive sciences, Gizmodo, Nov. 11, 2025
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Megan Peters, is an associate professor of cognitive sciences and logic & philosophy of science at the University of California, Irvine. … Her research investigates how the brain represents and uses uncertainty. “The hard thing about convincing a neuroscientist (or anybody) that AI is conscious is that there’s no objective test for consciousness, and creating that test might be fundamentally impossible.”
For the full story, please visit https://gizmodo.com/what-would-it-take-to-convince-a-neuroscientist-that-an-ai-is-conscious-2000683232.
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