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 ...

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 ...

Expertise from Forbes Councils members, operated under license. Opinions expressed are those of the author. As artificial intelligence moves closer to what some call "superintelligence" or "sentient ...

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 ...