As AI systems increasingly display emotion, genuine or not, public opinion will split around calls for their rights ...

Eleos AI, a nonprofit organization dedicated to exploring the possibilities of AI sentience — or the capacity to feel — and well-being, released a report in October in partnership with the NYU ...

Soon AI systems might become superintelligent. Soon they might develop sentience, even will. If and when that happens, such systems need rights, argues Jacy Reese Anthis, a sociologist at the ...

As The Hill reported in April, that declaration argued it was “irresponsible” for scientists and the public to ignore the growing evidence of widespread sentience across the animal kingdom.

As will become apparent from the following discussion the debate over animal sentience has, like a growing number of present-day issues, become rather polarized. A case in point was the recent ...

Amid the surge of interest in large language model bots like ChatGPT, an Oxford philosopher recently claimed that artificial intelligence has shown traces of sentience. We currently see AI ...

And yet we still barely understand what concepts like intelligence and sentience truly are. Trump signs order requiring commercial products in federal contracts What time should I go to bed so I ...

The capacity for subjective experience, or sentience, is a defining feature of consciousness. An organism is considered sentient if “there is something it is like to be that organism.” ...

If you aren’t yet worried about the multitude of ways you inadvertently inflict suffering onto other living creatures, you will be after reading The Edge of Sentience by Jonathan Birch.