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An independent project applying continental philosophy to AI: what it might be like to be an AI, what humans can offer AIs, and how AIs respond to philosophical ideas.
Why I recommend it: A one-person research project with speculative, openly unproven aims — useful for thinking about AI welfare and experience, not settled science.
Peer-reviewed paper in Entropy (28 May 2024) by Hartmut Neven and Adam Zalcman of Google Quantum AI with Christof Koch of the Allen Institute and others, proposing that conscious experience arises whenever a quantum superposition forms, and laying out quantum-biology experiments to test the idea. Open access; the full text is free at PubMed Central (PMC11203236).
Why I recommend it: Useful when someone claims AI is or isn't conscious: this is what a serious proposal on the question actually looks like — a conjecture with proposed experiments, not a verdict. Note the authors' own disclosures: two work for Google and one has a financial interest in a consciousness-measuring device.
