Megan Peters

Megan Peters is a cognitive and computational neuroscientist working at the interface of psychology, AI, neuroscience, and philosophy. She is a professor at UCL, where she leads the Reflexion Lab – an interdisciplinary group studying how intelligent systems monitor and model their own knowledge, uncertainty, and experience. Previously, Megan was a tenured professor in cognitive sciences and philosophy of science at UC Irvine, and before that a bioengineering professor at UC Riverside. She is a CIFAR fellow in Brain Mind & Consciousness, and president and co-founder at Neuromatch, an educational and field-building nonprofit serving 40,000 people in over 130 countries. Q1: Why are you excited to be part of New Scientist Live this year? The opportunity to share my enthusiasm for this really important and societally relevant topic -- testing for consciousness in AI -- is absolutely thrilling. The potential for conscious AI has really strong societal and moral implications, but if we th