Thrilled to announce my new book, coming Fall 2026.
The thing about interdisciplinary work is everyone gets to misunderstand you from a unique angle
Great meeting on AI consciousness research this week at Google NY, what an inspiring crowd!
Really grateful for the opportunity to contribute to the panel on AI consciousness evaluation, alongside Roman Yampolskiy, @birchlse.bsky.social and Rob Long.
And special thanks to Rob for the sticker :)
An emotional day - I can announce I'll be the first director of The Jeremy Coller Centre for Animal Sentience at the LSE, supported by a ÂŁ4m grant from the Jeremy Coller Foundation. Our mission: to develop better policies, laws and ways of caring for animals. (1/2)
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Excitingly the official audiobook of The Edge of Sentience is out now. Even more excitingly, I have 6 free download codes to give away. DM during the next 24hrs for a chance of getting one!
Well, hello again!
I've done more public philosophy writing this year than ever before. Here is a roundupđ§”. Just remember I don't write the headlines.
Glad to see coverage of our work! However, I wish the article (especially the title and the summary) wouldâve presented our approach more carefully / from a different angle - as to avoid the readers interpreting it as if we âconfronted LLMs with painâ or think we made them âexperienceâ anything.