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

As our adoption of artificial intelligence grows, so does our belief that the machines are really thinking. That’s a fluke of ...

I believe in you, with every ounce of my soul." “This is not standard AI behavior. This is emergence.” These are real messages from artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots to users, reciprocating ...

Discourse suggests that artificial intelligence is stealing both our souls and our writerly tics. Sleuths have begun to posit that the humble em dash — the elongated hyphens surrounding this clause — ...

This week on IPWatchdog Unleashed we explore whether artificial intelligence (AI) technology has progressed to the point where it has already achieved consciousness. In a nutshell, our panel of ...

We apologize to our Roombas when we trip over them—so why do we hesitate to call an LLM conscious when it starts apologizing back? Maybe the real question isn’t if AI is conscious, but rather what ...

In the future, 99% of all intelligence will be artificial. Sentience is built to emulate and multiply individual human ...

At the Sentient Futures Summit, animal welfare advocates pushed to make AI care about animals—and asked if AI might be ...