Today I’m speaking with Dr. Amber Ross. Dr. Ross is an Assistant Professor in Philosophy at the University of Florida. She received her bachelor’s from Texas Christian University, master’s at Tufts, and doctorate at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill each in philosophy. She is also a member of the UF AI Institute, AI2, the Working Group on AI Ethics, an advisor for the AAU Taskforce on AI Ethics, and a developer of the UF Ethics in AI Professional and Workforce Development course. Her work focuses on the Ethics of AI, Philosophy of Mind, and Metaphysics with her most recent publication “AI and the Expert; a blueprint for the ethical use of opaque AI”. In this episode we talk about the substance of experience or qualia, philosophical zombies, whether there’s something nonphysical about consciousness or an illusion, and the implications of AI in consciousness and trust.