Google DeepMind has hired an in-house philosopher to explore the boundaries of machine consciousness and ethics. This move ...

Google DeepMind hires philosopher Henry Shevlin to tackle machine consciousness, AI ethics, and governance as agentic systems ...

The modern debate over sustainable-use bear hunting often hinges on a few claims including bears are sentient, therefore ...

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 ...

DJ: Yes I’m hopeful, but sentience isn’t the only thing that matters. Agency and cognition also matter for how people see animals. All of these dimensions of living (and perhaps some non-living) ...

The AI-sentience conversation was recently elevated in the Anthropic-War Department controversy. Much of it centered on ...

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 ...

A researcher from the New Jersey Institute of Technology has published a perspective paper that examines sentience and its application to artificial intelligence (AI) and robotics. Sentience describes ...

Artificial intelligence is advancing rapidly, prompting both excitement and concern about its potential capabilities. Roundtable anchor, Rob Nelson, discussed these issues with Todd Ruoff, CEO of ...

Artificial intelligence has progressed so rapidly that even some of the scientists responsible for many key developments are troubled by the pace of change. Earlier this year, more than 300 ...

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 ...

Advances in organoids and embryonic models of human development have the potential to prompt social and existential questions --e.g., what defines human individuality? However, bioethicists say that ...