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 will become apparent from the following discussion the debate over animal sentience has, like a growing number of present-day issues, become rather polarized. A case in point was the recent annual ...

Dr. Tom McClelland argues that there is no reliable way to know whether AI is conscious, and that this uncertainty may never ...

Can artificial intelligence become conscious? This question, once confined to science fiction, now occupies a central place ...

In the future we may encounter or create minds equal to our own, smarter, or somewhere in the gap between human and animal.

The capacity for subjective experience, or sentience, is a defining feature of consciousness. An organism is considered sentient if “there is something it is like to be that organism.” 1 In his 2024 ...

Whether it’s the virtual assistants in our phones, the chatbots providing customer service for banks and clothing stores, or tools like ChatGPT and Claude making workloads a little lighter, artificial ...

The generative AI revolution has seen more leaps forward than missteps—but one clear stumble was the sycophantic smothering of OpenAI’s 4o large language model (LLM), which the ChatGPT maker ...

Sentience in nonhuman animals (animals) is a "hot" topic receiving attention from a wide range of researchers with different interests and agendas. For the purpose of this essay and as I've done ...

Jane Kotzmann is affiliated with Animals Australia, Voiceless and RSPCA. the last short journey he made, pausing to rest every few feet, was to the very place where Flo’s body had lain. There he ...