Why Current AI Cannot Be Conscious | Dr. Christof Koch

Podcast: Eye On A.I. · Craig S. Smith

Opublikowano: 2026-09-30

One in four patients currently being considered for life support withdrawal may actually be fully conscious, they just can't signal it. That single finding, from a landmark New England Journal of Medicine study, is the practical stakes behind one of the most philosophically rich conversations in this series. Dr. Christof Koch - former president of the Allen Institute for Brain Science, 25-year collaborator with Nobel laureate Francis Crick, and founder of the startup Intrinsic Powers - joins Craig Smith to discuss why the hard problem of consciousness remains unsolved, what integrated information theory predicts about which systems can and...