# 287 - Guest: Suzanne Gildert, Quantum Entrepreneur, part 1

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Podcast: [Artificial Intelligence and You](https://stenobird.com/podcast/artificial-intelligence-and-you-381707)
Published: 2025-12-15T18:00:00+00:00
Episode link: https://aiandyou.net/e/287-guest-suzanne-gildert-quantum-entrepreneur-part-1/
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This and all episodes at: https://aiandyou.net/ . What is consciousness? That’s a profound question that many would say is unanswerable. And how could you make artificial consciousness? That’s a more profound question that many would say is impossible. Tackling both of those head-on is Suzanne Gildert, founder of Nirvanic, a Quantum-AI research company. She’s not just talking about consciousness, she’s doing something about it. She is a prolific inventor with more than 60 US patents in quantum computing, humanoid robotics and artificial intelligence. Suzanne has a PhD in experimental quantum physics – I mean, how cool is that - and was the founder of two robot companies, Kindred AI, and Sanctuary AI. At Nirvanic she seeks to understand consciousness and innovate conscious AI using quantum computing. We talk about quantum computing and consciousness, the nature of reality and its connection to quantum physics, the Observer Effect and Schrödinger’s Box, panpsychism, the state of the art of quantum computing, quantum supremacy, the present and future of general purpose robotics, and the connection between reward functions and the consciousness of the universe. All this plus our usual look at today's AI headlines. Transcript and URLs referenced at HumanCusp Blog.

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