The more we study sentience among nonhuman animals (animals) the more species are added to the sentience arena—the biodiversity of sentience is forever growing—and ethical questions about pain and ...

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 ...

Sentience means the ability to feel. Scholars from many different disciplines are very interested in who/what is sentient and who/what isn't—what I call the biodiversity of sentience. I like to say ...

Humanity has a love-hate relationship with the concept of artificial intelligence. On one hand, audiences love to see fictional robots grow beyond their programming. On the other hand, many creatives ...

AI is nowhere near even approaching anything resembling sentience. But if it were, would it be ethical to make it do ...

Can artificial intelligence (AI) feel distress? Do lobsters suffer in a pot as it reaches a boil? Can a 12-week-old fetus feel pain? Ignore these questions and we potentially sanction a quiet, ...

Tom has a Master's degree in Journalism. His editorial work covers anything from archaeology and the environment to technology and culture. Tom has a Master's degree in Journalism. His editorial work ...

Surprise, surprise, Google has fired the engineer who claimed his LaMDA chatbot had achieved consciousness and feared being turned off. It’s easy to see why Google found the episode embarrassing: the ...