Calum Chace

I'm David Wood, a survivor from the early days of the smartphone industry, who aspires nowadays to be a radical real-world futurist.

And I'm Calum Chace, a co-founder of the AI safety startup Conscium, and a writer and keynote speaker on the future of AI.

Our topic in this episode is a new book that has just been published, Perspectives on Machine Consciousness.

It contains 26 chapters written by a total of 31 authors, who include a wide range of distinguished neuroscientists, philosophers, technologists, AI specialists, science fiction authors, and futurists.

One of the book's co-editors is Calum, which is why I'll be asking him questions today.

Calum, let's get started.

The book has the word Conscium on its front cover.

Why don't you bring our listeners up to date with what Conscium is, what your role there is, and the connection between Conscium and this new book?

Colin Chase is a bestselling author and keynote speaker.

In his engaging books and talks, he addresses the impact of AI on society with a focus on machine intelligence and the economic consequences of AI automation.

He is the author of a new book titled Perspectives on Machine Consciousness, which came out just this week.