The capacity for subjective experience, or sentience, is a defining feature of consciousness. An organism is considered sentient if “there is something it is like to be that organism.” 1 In his 2024 ...

As will become apparent from the following discussion, the debate over animal sentience has, like a growing number of present-day issues, become rather polarized. A case in point was the recent Annual ...

Can artificial intelligence (AI) feel distress? Do lobsters suffer in a pot as it reaches a boil? Can a 12-week-old fetus feel pain? Ignore these questions and we potentially sanction a quiet, ...

Artificial intelligence has progressed so rapidly that even some of the scientists responsible for many key developments are troubled by the pace of change. Earlier this year, more than 300 ...

Intelligence comes in many forms. Octopuses are highly intelligent—and completely unlike humans. In case you haven’t noticed, artificial intelligence systems have been behaving in increasingly ...