The Sun Magazine

This month’s issue features an interview with Susan Schneider on the possibility of AI becoming conscious. The discussion with interviewer Michael Owen is at times philosophical, as the two ponder the nature of consciousness and how we can even know what another’s experience of it is like. It made me think about the attitudes toward new technology that have been expressed in...

Some AIs can already outthink us in certain respects. If they become conscious as well, then we’ll have intellectual rivals that are also conscious beings.

Danielle Ferguson drops everything she’s doing when the moon looks especially beautiful. She lives on an island in the Pacific Northwest, where she leads sound baths, saunas, and cold plunges year-round. She captured this image on a misty morning, from one of her favorite spots on Bainbridge Island.

I read Finn Cohen’s interview with Chief Xian aTunde Adjuah [“Ancestors,” May 2026] on the musical and cultural legacy of New Orleans the same morning I learned from the news that we’ve reached a point of no return: By the end of this century, New Orleans will disappear under a rising sea along with an enormous swath of southern Louisiana.

The interview validated m...

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