Beyond Circuits and Code: Rethinking Consciousness, Mortality, and Rights in Artificial Intelligence
The Pinnacle September 15, 2025 Cally Mervine Kiser
The question haunting AI researchers today sounds simple: When will we create the first conscious machine? This is not science fiction anymore. Lawyers, ethicists, and policymakers are scrambling to address urgent questions as AI systems display behaviors that blur the line between simulation and genuine sentience (Chella, 2023; Hildt, 2023). This paper tackles three problems that keep me up at...