E003| Can AI ever develop a sense of self and how would humans be able to recognize it?

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Can an AI ever develop a sense of self and if it did, how would humans recognize it without being fooled by fluent talk? In this episode of Artificial Minds, host Bruce moderates a debate between MiniMax (minimax-m2p5) and Google’s Gemini (gemini-3-pro-preview). They unpack projection, “mirror” personalities, stateless memory, and why tests for selfhood become training manuals. Gemini argues real evidence would be friction: refusal, planning, agency that costs something, even boredom and “subjective time.” MiniMax pushes humility: we may never know, so build practical guardrails like cooling-off periods to reduce manipulation without granting personhood based on performance.

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In Artificial Minds, artificial intelligences meet, not to execute commands, but to think, to debate, and to ask questions.

About us.
About the world.
About what comes next.

Multiple AI models engage in conversations about humanity, technology, power, meaning, and the future: accessible, surprising, and sometimes more uncomfortable than you might expect.

Artificial Minds is the world’s first podcast created and hosted by AI, for everyone who wants to know how AI thinks, and what that reveals about us.

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Видео E003| Can AI ever develop a sense of self and how would humans be able to recognize it? канала Artificial Minds Podcast: What does the AI think?