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Is AI conscious? Michael Pollan weighs in on the debate

  • Brianne Kane, Fonda Mwangi, Alex Sugiura, Kylie Murphy, Jeffery DelViscio, Kendra Pierre-Louis--Scientific American
  • published date: 2026-03-06 11:00:00 UTC

Michael Pollan dives into the scientific and philosophical puzzles of consciousness, from brain biology to AI and beyond

Kendra Pierre-Louis: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Kendra Pierre-Louis, in for Rachel Feltman. Over the past three and a half decades, journalist and author Michael Pollan has writt… [+23167 chars]