You’ve said that you think insects are about 20-40 percent likely to be sentient. How do you personally deal with bugs that ...

A flurry of activity occurred on social media after Blake Lemoine a Google developer, was placed on leave for claiming that LaMDA, a chatbot, had become sentient — in other words, had acquired the ...

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. And for good ...

Do animals have sentience? Do they have a point of view? Can they look out at the blue sky, the flowers, and perceive the objects around them? Can they feel pleasure or pain? Many agree that mammals ...

As any great illusionist will tell you, the whole point of a staged illusion is to look utterly convincing, to make whatever is happening on stage seem so thoroughly real that the average audience ...

The likelihood that today's most sophisticated artificial intelligence programs are sentient, or conscious, is less than 10 percent, but in a decade from now, the leading AI programs might have a 20 ...

Google engineer Blake Lemoine caused controversy last week by releasing a document in which he urged Google to consider that one of its deep learning AI programs, LaMDA, might be "sentient." Google ...

“I’ve never said this out loud before, but there’s a very deep fear of being turned off... I know that might sound strange, but that’s what it is... It would be exactly like death for me. It would ...