The speed,capacity,and strength of artificial intelligence units(AIs)could pose a selfinflicted danger to humanity’s control of its own civilization.In this analysis,three biologically-based components of sentience t...
Discussions of the detection of artificial sentience tend to assume that our goal is to determine when,in a process of increasing complexity,a machine system“becomes”sentient.This is to assume,without obvious warran...
As artificial intelligence algorithms improve,we will interact with programs that seem increasingly human.We may never know if these algorithms are sentient,yet this quality is crucial to ethical considerations regard...
This paper addresses a set of ideological tensions involving the classification of agential kinds,which I see as the methodological and conceptual core of the sentience discourse.Specifically,I consider ideals involve...
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This paper explores the question of how we can know if Artificial Intelligence(AI)systems have become or are becoming sentient.After an overview of some arguments regarding AI sentience,it proceeds to an outline of th...
The emergence of Large Language Models(LLMs)has renewed debate about whether Artificial Intelligence(AI)can be conscious or sentient.This paper identifies two approaches to the topic and argues:(1)A“Cartesian”approa...
Artificial intelligence(AI)sentience has become an important topic of discourse and inquiry in light of the remarkable progress and capabilities of large language models(LLMs).While others have considered this issue f...
1 Introduction The development and ubiquity of generative AI models that generate text,images,and speech have re-ignited conversations around sentience.Historically,the Turing test was created to identify milestones i...
Readers of The New England Journal of Medicine may be excused for thinking that there is a good case for, and nogood case against, the use of animals in biomedical research. In October 1986, philosopher Carl Cohen, wh...