Preprint of our forthcoming publication, “How Should the Law Treat Future AI Systems? Fictional Legal Personhood vs Legal Identity” (co-authored with Heather Alexander and Frédéric Pinard) is now on arXiv: arxiv.org/abs/2511.14964
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fact check: Dario Amodei does not in fact "sound completely insane", when he says that we should “at least consider the question” of AI consciousness while we build and deploy millions of complex intelligent beings
it's okay Dario! 😇
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AI Will Break International Law Unless Lawyers Learn To Get Radical. open.substack.com/pub/heatherjea…
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"COMMENT: The United Nations and Robot Rights" by Heather Alexander digitalcommons.schulichlaw.dal.ca/cjlt/vol20/iss…
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1/5 Happy to announce my new paper in @NeuroConsc that tries to explain the richness and ineffability of consciousness in a physicalist framework. This was work with Xu Ji, @ConstantAxel, @introspection, @g_lajoie_, Jonathan Simon, and Yoshua Bengio.
academic.oup.com/nc/article/202…
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1/ Excellent write-up of our recent paper on AI consciousness in Science.
Some highlights 🧵
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It was a pleasure working with such an amazing team to produce this report!
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1/ Could AI systems be conscious any time soon? @patrickbutlin and I worked with leading voices in neuroscience, AI, and philosophy to bring scientific rigor to this topic. Our new report aims to provide a comprehensive resource and program for future research 🧵
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I am so honoured and grateful to receive this award from @NSERC_CRSNG. NSERC has been a constant pillar of support in my career, from grad school to today, and this fellowship will help me and my group push hard on our most exciting ideas. So, thank you NSERC, and stay tuned!
NSERC / CRSNG@NSERC_CRSNG
🏆 Blake Richards @mcgillu wins an Arthur B. McDonald Fellowship in recognition of outstanding contributions to the fields of neuroscience and artificial intelligence. ▶️tinyurl.com/yc8bd9sh @tyrell_turing #NSERC_Prizes
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