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Do AI agents have minds? A philosopher explains

By Tom Cochrane, Senior Lecturer in Philosophy, Flinders University

In the past few months, partly autonomous or “agentic” artificial intelligence (AI) systems have racked up some astonishing feats, from hacking tech startups to solving some of the world’s most famous open mathematical questions.

Agentic AI systems can work in “swarms” that communicate…

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