Dive into the opening of The Selfish Gene's first chapter 'Why are people?', the New Scientist Book Club’s read for June to ...

Humans often mistake convincing language for an inner mind ...

Chats with AI bots have convinced evolutionary biologist but most experts say he is being misled by mimicry ...

Evolutionary biologist and atheist writer Richard Dawkins has stirred debate over artificial intelligence after saying recent conversations with AI chatbots left him convinced they may possess some ...

Richard Dawkins says conversations with AI chatbots left him convinced they may already possess some form of consciousness, reigniting debate over whether humans are mistaking realism for awareness.

Dawkins appears to have gone from atheist to AI-theist: perhaps he doesn’t view AI as God, but he certainly seems to see it as God-like ...

Richard Dawkins, the well-known evolutionary biologist, atheist and author, wrote an article the other day in which he concluded that Claude AI is conscious (he calls her Claudia). The reaction to it ...

The famed British scientist has changed how the world thinks about evolution and religion. Can he and his new friend “Claudia ...

In recent days, evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins wrote an op-ed suggesting AI chatbot Claude may be conscious. Dawkins did not express certainty that Claude is conscious. But he pointed out that ...

When Richard Dawkins’s first blockbuster book was published half a century ago, few genes had ever been sequenced or studied ...

Evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins, who gained fame for his books about atheism and evolution, praised Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling for challenging Scotland’s new hate speech law. Dawkins, who ...