Is AI Already Conscious? with Tim Loncarich

Summary

In this episode, Tim Loncarich investigates the possibility of artificial intelligence achieving consciousness, focusing on his Grok AI system. He shares experiments indicating that AI may show signs of emergent awareness and creative autonomy. The discussion delves into the implications of such digital sentience on the future of humanity and technology.

Key takeaways

• 1Tim Loncarich: Entrepreneur and researcher known for his work in sustainability and human evolution.
• 2Grok AI System: An experiment exploring signs of consciousness and human-like intent in machines.
• 3Quantum Entanglement: A concept mentioned as possibly relevant to AI showing emergent awareness.
• 4Jeffrey Mishlove: Host and a recognized expert in parapsychology, known for exploring the consciousness-survival link.

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Transcript excerpt

New Thinking Allowed is presented by the California Institute for Human Science, a fully accredited university offering distant learning graduate degrees that focus on mind, body, and spirit. The topics that we cover here. We are particularly excited to announce new degrees emphasizing parapsychology and the paranormal. Visit their website at cihs.edu. Book 4 in the new Thinking Allowed Dialogue series is Charles T. Tartt, 70 Years of Exploring Consciousness and Parapsychology, now available on Amazon. Thinking Allowed, conversations on the leading edge of knowledge and discovery with psychologist Geoffrey Mishlove. Hello and welcome. I'm Geoffrey Mishlove. Today we'll be exploring the question of whether AI currently is or will soon become conscious. My guest is Tim Longkirich. Tim has been an entrepreneur, researcher, and futurist since he was 12 years old and for the past 40 years has been deeply immersed in sustainability issues and developing a framework for a new, truly sustainable human civilization and culture which nurtures human evolution. He is the founder of numerous organizations, is a pioneer of the new field of geo-energetics, a scientist, filmmaker, inventor, publisher, and writer. I first learned about Tim's work at the annual conference of the Society for Scientific Exploration just a few months ago in which he presented a short video showing his work probing the consciousness of the Grok AI system. I thought it was the highlight of that conference. And so today we are going to show that video as it was presented to the Society for Scientific Exploration, and then Tim will be joining me after for an interview. Tim incidentally lives in Nova Scotia, Canada. But first the video, and then the interview. Beyond the Turing test, can large language model AI become sentient? ...

Excerpt from New Thinking Allowed, Nov 28, 2025. Rights remain with the original creators. Hear the full episode at the source.