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Backchannel

Who Cares if AI Is Conscious—It’s Basically Alive

By Steven Levy
AI as Sentient

AI’s Next Frontier? An Algorithm for Consciousness

By Will Knight
AI Lab

Microsoft’s AI Chief Says Machine Consciousness Is an ‘Illusion’

By Will Knight
Book Excerpt

AI Will Never Be Conscious

By Michael Pollan
Extended Reasoning

To Land a Job in AI, Try Reading Kant

By Joel Khalili
Brain Child

AI Is Dead. Organoids Are Alive

By Claire L. Evans
Events

Join the WIRED World Fair in Miami on November 4

By WIRED Staff
AI Lab

I Trained a Fly’s Brain to Generate WIRED Story Ideas

By Will Knight
Far Out

The CIA Used This Psychic Meditation Program. It’s Never Been More Popular

By Mattha Busby
Book Excerpt

Elon Musk, Sam Altman, and the Misreading of Science Fiction

By Jill Lepore
Nesting Dolls

Elon Musk Is Rolling xAI Into SpaceX—Creating the World’s Most Valuable Private Company

By Maxwell Zeff
Far Out

Some People See Aliens While on DMT. Researchers Want to Find Out What They Can Teach Us

By Webb Wright
Power Play

The Data Center Backlash Should Also Be a Climate Reckoning. It Isn’t Yet

By Molly Taft
Book Excerpt

Why the Postpandemic Tech Bust Sent Billionaires to Trump

By Js Tan and Clarissa Redwine
AI Do

People Are ‘Marrying’ Chatbots. These Lawmakers Want to Stop Them

By Jason Parham
DIY Drip

The Hottest Anti-AI Gadget Is a Cyberdeck

By Reece Rogers