According to software engineer Blake Lemoine, LaMDA has achieved a long-held dream of AI developers: It has become sentient. Mr Lemoine’s bosses at Google disagree, and have suspended him from ...

Without a particularly robust definition of what consciousness even is, that's still about all we can say for sure; I'm pretty sure I'm sentient, I've got no idea about you lot. But that doesn't ...

Joe Raedle/Getty Images The concept of personhood actually sounds more outlandish than it is, especially when corporations technically have personhood—so, why not sentient four-legged creatures?

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 ...