Example Sentences

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When students gasped, he said: “That’s where all this AI hype comes from. We’re not good at programming consciousness. But we’re great at imagining nonconscious things are people.”

From The Wall Street Journal • May 3, 2026

Critics could argue that each of the behaviors described earlier could also be programmed into a nonconscious robot.

From Scientific American • Jun. 16, 2023

“The corporate diversity programs shifted from these kind of benign discussions of recruiting and nonconscious bias to an active discussion of accountability for antiracism and gender equity,” Dr. Tillery said.

From New York Times • May 31, 2023

Rather, people's strategic interests shape their attitudes in nonconscious but self-benefiting ways – a common finding in political science and evolutionary social science alike.

From Salon • Jul. 20, 2022

The symptom is thus an indirect expression of the nonconscious wishes, which, were they conscious to us, would come into a violent conflict with our conceptions of morals.

From The Journal of Abnormal Psychology, Volume 10 by Various