# Exploring Machine Consciousness
**Entity class:** Podcast and public-engagement project
**Collections:** [[collections/Consciousness Continuity|Consciousness Continuity]] · [[collections/Neurotech|Neurotech]]
**Canonical source article:** [[articles/Host-Indexed Autonomy|Host-Indexed Autonomy]]
## Definition
**Exploring Machine Consciousness** is PRISM's podcast on digital minds, AI consciousness, moral status, and the social consequences of perceived or possible artificial minds. It is also a provenance-bearing oral-history source for a field assembling across philosophy, cognitive science, neuroscience, law, and AI.
## Relationships
- **Publisher:** [[wiki/PRISM (Partnership for Research Into Sentient Machines)|PRISM]].
- **Documented guests and participants:** [[wiki/Susan Schneider|Susan Schneider]], [[wiki/Henry Shevlin|Henry Shevlin]], [[wiki/Jeff Sebo|Jeff Sebo]], [[wiki/Lenore Blum|Lenore Blum]], [[wiki/Lucius Caviola|Lucius Caviola]], [[wiki/Cameron Berg|Cameron Berg]], [[wiki/Keith Frankish|Keith Frankish]], [[wiki/Clara Colombatto|Clara Colombatto]], [[wiki/Eric Schwitzgebel|Eric Schwitzgebel]], [[wiki/Heather Alexander|Heather Alexander]], and [[wiki/Megan Peters|Megan Peters]].
- **Research neighborhood:** [[wiki/Artificial Consciousness|artificial consciousness]], [[wiki/AI Welfare|AI welfare]], [[wiki/Legal Personhood|legal personhood]], [[wiki/Metacognition|metacognition]], and [[wiki/Perceived AI Consciousness|perceived AI consciousness]].
- **Collection and source routes:** [[collections/Consciousness Continuity|Consciousness Continuity]], [[collections/Neurotech|Neurotech]], and [[articles/Host-Indexed Autonomy|Host-Indexed Autonomy]].
## Sources
- [PRISM — official site and podcast route](https://www.prism-global.com/)