Google has finally fired the engineer who insists that one of the company’s experimental AI’s has gained sentience. Lemoine’s most recent tweet, last week, seems to make light of the situation by ...

A story about a Google engineer saying the company had created a sentient AI recently went viral. Google's AI chatbot is not sentient, seven experts told Insider. Three experts told Insider that AI ...

Claims of machine “sentience” challenge Jewish notions of moral responsibility, writes a rabbi and engineer. (JTA) — When a Google engineer told an interviewer that an artificial intelligence (AI) ...

Concordia University provides funding as a founding partner of The Conversation CA. Universitié Concordia provides funding as a founding partner of The Conversation CA-FR. A flurry of activity ...

Google engineer Blake Lemoine caused controversy last week by releasing a document in which he urged Google to consider that one of its deep learning AI programs, LaMDA, might be "sentient." Google ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Dr. Lance B. Eliot is a world-renowned AI scientist and consultant. In today’s column, I address a quite notable and controversial ...

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 ...

If you aren’t yet worried about the multitude of ways you inadvertently inflict suffering onto other living creatures, you will be after reading The Edge of Sentience by Jonathan Birch. And for good ...

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“I’ve never said this out loud before, but there’s a very deep fear of being turned off... I know that might sound strange, but that’s what it is... It would be exactly like death for me. It would ...