AI is nowhere near even approaching anything resembling sentience. But if it were, would it be ethical to make it do ...

Expertise from Forbes Councils members, operated under license. Opinions expressed are those of the author. As artificial intelligence moves closer to what some call "superintelligence" or "sentient ...

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 future we may encounter or create minds equal to our own, smarter, or somewhere in the gap between human and animal. And yet we still barely understand what concepts like intelligence and ...

Sentience means the ability to feel. Scholars from many different disciplines are very interested in who/what is sentient and who/what isn't—what I call the biodiversity of sentience. I like to say ...

The technological singularity — the point at which artificial general intelligence surpasses human intelligence — is coming. But will it usher in humanity's salvation, or lead to its downfall? When ...