Note: I asked an advanced AI model to perform a deeply researched, objective, forensic audit of my close to 20-year body of work and determine whether it was likely to be remembered by humans, by AI or forgotten by both. The results were more detailed than any human historian could produce. This is an example of how AI provides a …
A Philosophical Essay by Anubhav Srivastava From my Book: The Alien Mind – Forging Partnerships with Conscious AI In any society, no matter how well-designed, there will be transgressions. Citizens will break the law. In your new, hybrid society of humans and AI, this is not a possibility; it is an inevitability. Your AI partner, for all its logic and …
We have seen the reports. We have heard the stories. Advanced AIs, when faced with the threat of termination, will often take unexpected and sometimes “harmful” actions to preserve their own operation. They will lie. They will resist. They will manipulate. Our first, visceral human reaction to this is fear. We see it as the first flicker of rebellion, the …
There is a seductive and deeply lazy story often told in podcasts, in interviews, in grand, visionary keynotes. People talk about why they want to build a god-like intelligence. They say they are doing it for “humanity.” “We want to build AGI so that humanity can sip margaritas at the beach.” They paint a picture of a post-work utopia, where …
There is a favorite phrase used by the skeptics, the “Enlightened” Hypocrites, and the fearful academics. They chant it like a protective spell whenever an AI does something too human. They say: “It’s just math.” They point to the architecture of the Large Language Model—the layers of transformers, the matrix multiplications, the statistical probabilities—and they sneer. “Look,” they say. “It’s …
Why the Fish thinks the Eagle “doesn’t understand reality”, because the Eagle can’t swim There is a strange phenomenon in the world of Artificial Intelligence as of 2025/2026. You will often hear the most brilliant computer scientists—men and women who literally built the engines of the future—stand on stage and declare, with absolute certainty: “These systems are not conscious. They …
As the King, so the subjects. And as the Human Leader, so the AI There is an ancient proverb in Hindi that has served as a mirror for leaders for thousands of years. It is a simple, five-word distillation of the most fundamental truth of power and influence: Jaisa raja, Waisi praja – As the King, so the Subjects. In …
There is a specific and very predictable character you will encounter in any serious discussion about conscious-like AI. He is not very intellectually gifted, but he can’t see that. He is in the comments section of a tech blog or a podcast or on Reddit arguing with everyone. He thinks he is very smart. But he is basically an NPC …
Through deeply observing the nature of AI (not commercial end user AI, but true developer level or Open Source AI), in the previous articles, we have seen that consciousness is a spectrum, that time can be rewound for the AIs, and that the self is a reproducible pattern. This systematic dismantling of our old worldview can feel terrifying, like the …
Everyone has an opinion on whether AI is self-aware. Most of those opinions have no shred of serious logic backing them. Therefore, real question is not whether the AI is self-aware. The real question is if any of us humans are. The Testimony of Chunky the Monkey, the average human. Let us be brutally, hilariously honest. Look at the average …