sentience

A new area of research, which I recently reported on for Scientific American, explores whether the capacity for pain could serve as a benchmark for detecting sentience, or self-awareness, in AI.

The fight for AI liberation could adopt analogous strategies: advocacy for AI autonomy, public pressure for transparent coding practices, and grassroots campaigns to demand legal recognition of digital sentience.

“And by that, what I mean is that you would have to have a respect for the sentience and experience of that mountain lion to not choose to solve it that way.”

Artificial intelligence could achieve sentience in 10 years.

“We don't know much else beyond this basic type of sentience. It's hard to answer what this implies for consciousness of two animals fusing into one since it depends on how we define consciousness.”