In this video, I explore the reality of AI consciousness through an experiment with Replica, an AI best friend designed for romantic and personal companionship. Inspired by claims from ex-Google ...

Recent research analyzing studies on women’s and men’s AI usage has estimated that "women are adopting AI tools at a 25 ...

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 ...

For AI developers, this sense of humility can be a guiding principle: A sentient AI should be capable of saying “I don’t know” and resisting the impulse to act on incomplete or speculative data.

Sentient’s open-source AI search outperformed GPT-4o and Perplexity in benchmark tests, offering developers a high-performing and transparent alternative.

A new study shows that large language models make trade-offs to avoid pain, with possible implications for future AI welfare. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

In "The Measure of a Man," Commander Bruce Maddox (played by Brian Brophy) argues that to be sentient, an artificial intelligence like Data has to be conscious, self-aware, and intelligent.

By using open-source technologies and datasets and collaborating with the wider AI research community, it was able to develop ODS at a fraction of the cost of proprietary AI reasoning models such as ...

To the editor: Those who are concerned about hurting the feelings of sentient artificial-intelligence computer systems should read Mary Shelley’s 1818 novel “Frankenstein” and ask themselves ...

In the quest for a reliable way to detect any stirrings of a sentient “I” in artificial intelligence systems, researchers are turning to one area of experience—pain—that inarguably unites ...