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From cacophony to hierarchy: a principled framework for assessing AI consciousness
Shamil Chandaria, Arvo Muñoz Morán, Fernando Rosas +11
The question of AI consciousness is one of the most urgent pre-emptive problems in philosophy and computer science, yet progress is hampered by a cacophony of competing theories th…
Positive Alignment: Artificial Intelligence for Human Flourishing
Ruben Laukkonen, Seb Krier, Chloé Bakalar +13
Existing alignment research is dominated by concerns about safety and preventing harm: safeguards, controllability, and compliance. This paradigm of alignment parallels early psych…
Clear Mind: Meditation and the Brain's Signal-to-Noise Ratio
Ruben Laukkonen
Meditation is quintessentially associated with a clear mind. This paper proposes that diverse findings in the science of meditation can be mapped onto a single, empirically tractab…
Past Psychedelic Use Predicts Divergent Thinking
Gregory J Pope, Christopher Timmermann, William Trender +3
Psychedelics have shown potential in treating a range of mental health conditions, yet far less is known about their impact on creativity. This study examined three components of c…
Meditative absorption shifts brain dynamics toward criticality
Jonas Mago, Joshua Brahinsky, Mark Miller +10
Criticality describes a regime between order and chaos that supports flexible yet stable information processing. Here we examine whether neural dynamics can be volitionally shifted…
Contemplative Artificial Intelligence
Ruben Laukkonen, Fionn Inglis, Shamil Chandaria +5
As artificial intelligence (AI) improves, traditional alignment strategies may falter in the face of unpredictable self-improvement, hidden subgoals, and the sheer complexity of in…