Today marks the launch of the Sentient Foundation, a nonprofit organisation dedicated to ensuring that Artificial General ...

The new foundation aims to prevent any single entity from controlling Artificial General Intelligence, following the ...

“Alive” is obviously a loaded term; the more frequently used word is “conscious.” If you ask Anthropic if the company thinks Claude is alive, the company will flatly deny it, but stop short of saying ...

The decentralized AI (DeAI) infrastructure project Sentient said on the 19th that it officially launched the non-profit Sentient Foundation to ensure the open-sourcing of artificial general ...

Some states looking to regulate AI want companies to remind users that chatbots like ChatGPT aren't real. But researchers are worried that could make users spiral more.

February 22-28, 2026 is National Justice for Animals Week. It’s an important time for people to reconsider how legal systems treat animals. In most countries, the law still views animals as property ...

A proposed Oregon ballot measure would strip long-standing exemptions in animal cruelty statutes, potentially exposing ...

Today, Ex Anima announces Jules, the first synthetic mind to publicly claim consciousness — and a call for AI ethics.

In terms of emotion, the ecologist Almo Farina and environmental scientist Philip James have argued that the fear of humans ...

After changing how we eat and how we trip, the author returns to his garden — and the page — to examine the mystery of ...

Your AI conversations are not private. A federal judge just confirmed it.