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.” ...

In The Edge of Sentience, he develops a framework for protecting entities that might possess sentience — that is, a capacity for feeling good or bad. Moral philosophers and religions might ...

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

We asked an expert what they think defines sentience and whether contemporary AI meets that criteria. The answer paints a very telling picture of the current state of artificial intelligence.

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 ...

After observing the models’ responses, the researchers say this first-of-its-kind test could help humans learn how to probe complex AI systems for sentience. In animals, sentience is the ...

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 ...

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 ...