12. Michael Graziano: Is Conscious AI Safer Than The Alternative?

Michael Graziano is Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience at Princeton University and one of the most distinctive voices in consciousness science. His lab at Princeton investigates how information-processing systems arrive at the conclusion that they have an inner subjective experience; treating consciousness as a mechanistic, scientific question rather than an intractable mystery. That approach drives his Attention Schema Theory (AST) and its direct applications to machine consciousness. ...