If we give AI rights because we think it's conscious, we lose the ability to control it… the dangerous illusion explained by a consciousness expert.

Professor Anil Seth is one of the world's leading neuroscientists, Co-Director of the Sussex Centre for Consciousness Science, and author of Being You, which challenges everything you thought you knew about perception, reality, and what it means to be conscious.

0:00 Overestimating AI and underestimating ourselves

0:43 Why we project consciousness onto ChatGPT and Claude

2:09 How AI metaphors diminish our view of biological intelligence

3:25 Can AI become conscious? The truth between zero and 100%

5:05 Why consciousness requires life: metabolism, biology, substrate

6:00 Brain organoids vs GPT—which should worry us more?

7:28 Consc ...