# DeepMind Is Paying a Philosopher to Study a Problem Its Own Researcher Says Is Impossible

- slug: deepmind-is-paying-a-philosopher-to-study-a-problem-its-own-researcher-says-is-impossible
- date: 2026-04-18
- category: Artificial Intelligence

DeepMind hired a Cambridge philosopher to study machine consciousness last week. What nobody at the lab has explained is why its own researcher published a paper five weeks earlier concluding the question is structurally impossible for any AI system.

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