Dr. Marian Siwiak, the research author. Architecture of an Artificial Sentience entity Artificial Sentience does not necessarily mean Artificial General Intelligence (by DALL·E 3) An entity meeting ...

Science and common sense show diverse animals are feeling beings who care about what happens to themselves and others, and ...

Computer scientists need to grapple with the possibility they will accidentally create sentient artificial intelligence (AI) — and to plan for those systems’ welfare, a new study argues. The report ...

Octopuses are one famous example of invertebrates. Source: Unsplash In a recent article published in Animal Sentience (the flagship journal for animal consciousness) by Bryce Huebner and myself, we ...

The research, led by World Animal Protection elephant expert and wildlife veterinarian Dr Jan Schmidt-Burbach, assessed 236 tourism venues housing 2,849 elephants across Thailand between February 2024 ...

Humans have had relationships with their pets for thousands of years, talking to them, coddling them, and imbuing them with human attributes. But are these animals “thinking,” and do nonhuman animals ...