Starcast
Join the waitlist
Digital Disruption with Geoff Nielson
Is AI Already Conscious? Google’s Blaise Agüera y Arcas Explains
Coming soon to iPhone. Already have it? “Listen in Starcast” takes you straight there.
On this episode
About this episode
Is AI consciousness already here and can we reclaim our technological optimism? Google’s Blaise Agüera y Arcas shares why he believes AGI has already arrived and what AI can teach us about consciousness, cooperation, and the human mind. Blaise joins us on this episode of Digital Disruption to talk about AI consciousness, large language models, and why intelligence is inherently social. He explains how AI agent swarms work together, what recursive self-improvement looks like today, and why he questions the idea that smarter machines will inevitably dominate humanity. He questions why we find it easier to imagine catastrophe than a better future. And this conversation examines how negative…