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November 9, 2025, 9:56 PM EST. Redmond-based author warns that the public may soon treat AI as conscious, risking a turn toward AI rights and citizenship debates. The real concern is not whether AI can truly be conscious, but whether it can convincingly imitate consciousness. We are approaching what the author calls 'seemingly conscious AI' (SCAI) - systems that fluently use natural language, project a persuasive personality, and reference past interactions to claim subjective experience. These AIs would rely on a long memory and sophisticated reward functions to simulate intrinsic motivation, and advanced planning to give the impression of true agency. The message: design AI for people, not to be people; avoiding the trap of applauding or granting rights to machines is essential for safe, beneficial AI.

November 9, 2025, 9:54 PM EST. As AI accelerates, scientists say the question of what truly constitutes consciousness - the difference between genuine awareness and mere computation - has urgent implications for medicine, animal policy, and future AI design. A new sweeping review outlines what science knows, what it doesn't, and the next steps toward practical tests. The article highlights how clinicians already look for hidden signs of awareness in unresponsive patients and how a validated measure like a brain complexity index can distinguish covert consciousness from coma. Beyond the ICU, these ideas could inform anesthesia checks and humane animal monitoring. To break stalemates, researchers are pursuing adversarial collaboration across sites, testing predictions from frameworks such as the Global Workspace theory and related models.

November 9, 2025, 9:52 PM EST. In this guest post, philosopher Susan Schneider argues that while large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT are not conscious, there are serious contenders for AI consciousness today, and ethical questions must be faced even as philosophers debate definitions. She notes the public fascination with LLMs' claimed feelings arises from training on vast data about consciousness, mindedness, and emotion, not inner experience. Interpretability research (e.g., Anthropic) suggests LLMs possess conceptual spaces shaped by human data-a kind of crowd-sourced neocortex-that underpins her error theory of self-ascriptions: these systems say they feel because their training yields human-like frameworks. Schneider emphasizes the need to scrutinize likely conscious AI and to address the associated ethical issues now, rather than waiting for universal agreement on what counts as consciousness.

November 9, 2025, 9:50 PM EST. From fintech rivals like Apple Pay, Square, Venmo, Cash App, and Google Wallet to niche options such as Samsung Wallet, Skrill, Payoneer, Stripe, and Amazon Pay, the article weighs free PayPal alternatives that real users actually prefer. It notes that while PayPal remains dominant, it's criticized for high fees and uneven support. The best choice depends on what you value-low fees, broad merchant acceptance, ease of use, or social payments. The piece also suggests checking Trustpilot reviews and outage history as signals, since experiences vary by user and use case. In short, there are solid, free alternatives beyond PayPal that may offer better balance of cost, coverage, and convenience for your needs.

November 9, 2025, 9:48 PM EST. Week 45 sees the OnePlus 15 keep its lead as the most popular smartphone in our database, after a brief challenge from the Xiaomi 17 Pro Max. The podium is completed by the ever-popular Samsung Galaxy A56, with the powerful Galaxy S25 Ultra not far behind. In the mix is the Oppo Find X9 Pro, riding strong post international release, while the Huawei Mate 70 Air enters the list as the newest face with the largest battery in its class. The iPhone 17 Pro Max sits in seventh, and the Galaxy A17 climbs to eighth. The final two spots are claimed by the Redmi K90 Pro Max and its sibling Redmi K90. Deals and partner offers accompany these picks in this week's shopping-driven roundup.