Cnbc
@cnbc·4.2M subscribers·16.1K videos
Could AI become conscious?
Posted
October 20, 2025
Views
10,180
Likes
65
Comments
10
Engagement
0.74%
October 20, 2025
10,180
65
10
0.74%
Every word spoken in this episode is indexed. Type any phrase to jump straight to the moment it was said.
Type any word or phrase that may have been spoken. Click a result to seek the player to that exact moment.
Try a name, a topic, or a quoted line
The societal debate surrounding AI companions isn’t just about their effects on humans. Increasingly it’s about whether the companions can have human-like experiences.
In a research paper, titled “Taking AI Welfare Seriously,” Robert Long, the executive director of Eleos AI, and his colleagues argued that “there is a realistic possibility that some AI systems will be conscious and/or robustly agentic in the near future.”
Sentinel Indexing in Progress
Metadata and chapters are available. Claim extraction for this episode is pending.
All video content is delivered via YouTube embedded players in accordance with the YouTube Terms of Service. Sentinel provides research tools that promote discovery and accountability across political media.
