Philosophy of Mind

Virtual reality personhood in 2026: avatars have no legal rights, but you pay the costs and carry the risks. Here’s what to know before investing in a digital persona.

Nicholas Humphrey wins the Dennett Prize 2026, selected unanimously from 17 applicants for work advancing our understanding of the brain and consciousness. Here’s what the award means.

AI consciousness news 2026: no AI has been proven conscious. See what Anthropic’s research, expert forecasts, and EU AI Act rules really say about the claims.

Are teens letting AI do their thinking? A 2026 survey of 1,000+ U.S. teens reveals how often AI handles schoolwork reasoning, and what the data misses.

New survey data reveal how confident Americans are that people can preserve critical thinking, purpose, and sound judgment as AI advances.

Explore the digital afterlife industry in 2026, from legacy avatars to privacy, consent and ownership. Who gets to decide what lives on?

What is a synthetic sentience declaration? Explore AI consciousness, potential rights, evidence, and the ethical challenges of the large world model era.

Discover why Felipe De Brigard and Sarah Robins won the 2026 Lebowitz Prize for exploring what makes memory distinct from imagining, perceiving, and knowing.

Digital twin autonomy news explores how virtual worlds train safer autonomous systems, test rare events, and reshape real world decisions, oversight, and trust.

Anthropic’s desperation signal reveals how Claude’s emotion-like patterns shape AI behavior, challenge safety assumptions, and change how we read its outputs.

Explore digital afterlife industry news on voice cloning, griefbots, and personhood, plus the urgent questions shaping digital legacies after death.

Explore virtual reality solitude studies and discover how immersive worlds foster calm and reflection, while revealing how solitude differs from loneliness.