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Ar­tifi­cial sentience

TagLast edit: 12 Jul 2022 0:16 UTC by Pablo

Artificial sentience (sometimes called digital sentience or machine sentience) is the capacity for subjective experience instantiated in artificial minds, such as arising from artificial general intelligence or whole brain emulation.

Evaluation

80,000 Hours rates artificial sentience a “potential highest priority area”: an issue that, if more thoroughly examined, could rank as a top global challenge.[1]

Further reading

Harris, Jamie & Jacy Reese Anthis (2021) The moral consideration of artificial entities: a literature review, Science and Engineering Ethics, vol. 27.

Long, Robert (2022) Key questions about artificial sentience: an opinionated guide, Experience Machines, April 25.

Shulman, Carl & Nick Bostrom (2021) Sharing the world with digital minds, in Steven Clarke, Hazem Zohny & Julian Savulescu (eds.) Rethinking Moral Status, Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 306–326.

Related entries

Center for Reducing Suffering | ethics of artificial intelligence | long-term future | mind crime | moral circle expansion | moral patienthood | non-humans and the long-term future | whole brain emulation

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    80,000 Hours (2022) Our current list of pressing world problems, 80,000 Hours.

The Im­por­tance of Ar­tifi­cial Sentience

Jamie_Harris3 Mar 2021 17:17 UTC
70 points
10 comments12 min readEA link
(www.sentienceinstitute.org)

Robert Long on Why You Might Want To Care About Ar­tifi­cial Sentience

Michaël Trazzi28 Aug 2022 17:26 UTC
51 points
3 comments5 min readEA link
(theinsideview.ai)

Key ques­tions about ar­tifi­cial sen­tience: an opinionated guide

rgb25 Apr 2022 13:42 UTC
91 points
3 comments1 min readEA link

Why I pri­ori­tize moral cir­cle ex­pan­sion over re­duc­ing ex­tinc­tion risk through ar­tifi­cial in­tel­li­gence alignment

Jacy20 Feb 2018 18:29 UTC
106 points
72 comments36 min readEA link
(www.sentienceinstitute.org)

80k pod­cast epi­sode on sen­tience in AI systems

rgb15 Mar 2023 20:19 UTC
85 points
2 comments1 min readEA link

Pri­ori­ti­za­tion Ques­tions for Ar­tifi­cial Sentience

Jamie_Harris18 Oct 2021 14:07 UTC
26 points
2 comments8 min readEA link
(www.sentienceinstitute.org)

Sen­tience In­sti­tute 2021 End of Year Summary

Ali26 Nov 2021 14:40 UTC
66 points
5 comments6 min readEA link
(www.sentienceinstitute.org)

On the (In)Ap­pli­ca­bil­ity of Cor­po­rate Rights Cases to Digi­tal Minds

Cullen28 Feb 2019 6:14 UTC
16 points
1 comment2 min readEA link

Assess­ing Sen­tience in Ar­tifi­cial Entities

Ali3 Jan 2022 20:34 UTC
32 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(www.sentienceinstitute.org)

Data Publi­ca­tion for the 2021 Ar­tifi­cial In­tel­li­gence, Mo­ral­ity, and Sen­tience (AIMS) Sur­vey

Janet Pauketat24 Mar 2022 15:43 UTC
21 points
0 comments3 min readEA link
(www.sentienceinstitute.org)

AI Wellbeing

Simon 11 Jul 2023 0:34 UTC
9 points
0 comments9 min readEA link

Be­ware pop­u­lar dis­cus­sions of AI “sen­tience”

David Mathers8 Jun 2023 8:57 UTC
41 points
6 comments9 min readEA link

Ar­tifi­cially sen­tient be­ings: Mo­ral, poli­ti­cal, and le­gal issues

Fırat Akova1 Aug 2023 17:48 UTC
16 points
2 comments1 min readEA link
(doi.org)

What to think when a lan­guage model tells you it’s sentient

rgb20 Feb 2023 2:59 UTC
112 points
18 comments6 min readEA link

Prin­ci­ples for AI Welfare Research

jeffsebo19 Jun 2023 11:30 UTC
127 points
14 comments13 min readEA link

The Ter­minol­ogy of Ar­tifi­cial Sentience

Janet Pauketat28 Nov 2021 7:52 UTC
29 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(www.sentienceinstitute.org)

The His­tory of AI Rights Research

Jamie_Harris27 Aug 2022 8:14 UTC
44 points
1 comment14 min readEA link
(www.sentienceinstitute.org)

New open let­ter on AI — “In­clude Con­scious­ness Re­search”

Jamie_Harris28 Apr 2023 7:50 UTC
52 points
1 comment3 min readEA link
(amcs-community.org)

Sen­tience In­sti­tute 2022 End of Year Summary

MichaelDello25 Nov 2022 12:28 UTC
48 points
0 comments7 min readEA link
(www.sentienceinstitute.org)

The Fu­ture Might Not Be So Great

Jacy30 Jun 2022 13:01 UTC
140 points
118 comments32 min readEA link
(www.sentienceinstitute.org)

Fu­ture Mat­ters #3: digi­tal sen­tience, AGI ruin, and fore­cast­ing track records

Pablo4 Jul 2022 17:44 UTC
70 points
2 comments19 min readEA link

What can we do now to pre­pare for AI sen­tience, in or­der to pro­tect them from the global scale of hu­man sadism?

rime18 Apr 2023 9:58 UTC
40 points
0 comments2 min readEA link

Ar­tifi­cial In­tel­li­gence, Mo­ral­ity, and Sen­tience (AIMS) Sur­vey: 2021

Janet Pauketat1 Jul 2022 7:47 UTC
36 points
0 comments2 min readEA link
(www.sentienceinstitute.org)

Pro­ject ideas: Sen­tience and rights of digi­tal minds

Lukas Finnveden4 Jan 2024 7:26 UTC
26 points
1 comment20 min readEA link
(lukasfinnveden.substack.com)

The im­por­tance of get­ting digi­tal con­scious­ness right

Derek Shiller13 Jun 2022 10:41 UTC
68 points
13 comments6 min readEA link

An­nounc­ing the Launch of the NYU Mind, Ethics, and Policy Program

Sofia_Fogel19 Sep 2022 14:33 UTC
107 points
4 comments1 min readEA link

The prob­lem of ar­tifi­cial suffering

mlsbt24 Sep 2021 14:43 UTC
49 points
3 comments9 min readEA link

[Question] What ever hap­pened to PETRL (Peo­ple for the Eth­i­cal Treat­ment of Re­in­force­ment Learn­ers)?

matthew.vandermerwe30 Dec 2019 17:28 UTC
32 points
4 comments1 min readEA link

What’s the deal with AI con­scious­ness?

ThomasW11 Jan 2023 16:37 UTC
33 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

Sen­tience in Machines—How Do We Test for This Ob­jec­tively?

Mayowa Osibodu20 Mar 2023 5:20 UTC
10 points
0 comments2 min readEA link
(www.researchgate.net)

[Question] Ar­tifi­cial Suffer­ing and Pas­cal’s Mug­ging: What to think?

Babel4 Oct 2021 15:01 UTC
15 points
4 comments2 min readEA link

AI Policy In­sights from the AIMS Survey

Janet Pauketat22 Feb 2024 19:17 UTC
10 points
1 comment18 min readEA link
(www.sentienceinstitute.org)

The Limits of Ar­tifi­cial Con­scious­ness: A Biol­ogy-Based Cri­tique of Chalmers’ Fad­ing Qualia Argument

stepanlos17 Dec 2023 19:15 UTC
5 points
2 comments17 min readEA link

Sum­mary of ‘Shar­ing the World With Digi­tal Minds’ by Carl Shul­man and Nick Bostrom

David Mathers7 Oct 2022 13:36 UTC
35 points
1 comment8 min readEA link

Im­ple­men­ta­tional Con­sid­er­a­tions for Digi­tal Consciousness

Derek Shiller30 Jul 2023 22:15 UTC
35 points
4 comments3 min readEA link

An Evolu­tion Revolu­tion: us­ing per­sonal digi­tal twin soft­ware, ar­tifi­cial sen­tience and quan­tum physics to solve ge­netic disorders

Athamanatha27 Dec 2023 4:24 UTC
0 points
0 comments18 min readEA link

Sen­tien­tism: Im­prov­ing the hu­man episte­mol­ogy and ethics baseline

JamieWoodhouse27 Mar 2019 15:34 UTC
8 points
6 comments1 min readEA link

[Question] How Can Com­pu­ta­tion Cause Con­scious­ness?

Matthew Barber21 Nov 2023 23:33 UTC
2 points
1 comment3 min readEA link

Hu­man­ity’s vast fu­ture and its im­pli­ca­tions for cause prioritization

BrownHairedEevee26 Jul 2022 5:04 UTC
36 points
3 comments4 min readEA link
(sunyshore.substack.com)

Call for sub­mis­sions: AI Safety Spe­cial Ses­sion at the Con­fer­ence on Ar­tifi­cial Life (ALIFE 2023)

Rory Greig5 Feb 2023 16:37 UTC
16 points
0 comments2 min readEA link
(humanvaluesandartificialagency.com)

[Question] Should some peo­ple start work­ing to in­fluence the peo­ple who are most likely to shape the val­ues of the first AGIs, so that they take into ac­count the in­ter­ests of wild and farmed an­i­mals and sen­tient digi­tal minds?

Keyvan Mostafavi31 Aug 2023 12:08 UTC
16 points
1 comment1 min readEA link

Global com­put­ing capacity

Vasco Grilo1 May 2023 6:09 UTC
12 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(aiimpacts.org)

It takes 5 lay­ers and 1000 ar­tifi­cial neu­rons to simu­late a sin­gle biolog­i­cal neu­ron [Link]

MichaelStJules7 Sep 2021 21:53 UTC
44 points
17 comments2 min readEA link

AI Con­scious­ness Re­port: A Roundtable Discussion

Sofia_Fogel30 Aug 2023 21:50 UTC
17 points
0 comments2 min readEA link

AGI x An­i­mal Welfare: A High-EV Outreach Op­por­tu­nity?

simeon_c28 Jun 2023 20:44 UTC
71 points
16 comments1 min readEA link

Im­prov­ing the Welfare of AIs: A Nearcasted Proposal

Ryan Greenblatt30 Oct 2023 14:57 UTC
43 points
0 comments20 min readEA link
(www.lesswrong.com)

Ner­vous Sys­tems, Func­tion­al­ism, and Ar­tifi­cial Minds

Group Organizer4 Oct 2023 3:11 UTC
5 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

Ar­tifi­cial In­tel­li­gence, Con­scious Machines, and An­i­mals: Broad­en­ing AI Ethics

Group Organizer21 Sep 2023 20:58 UTC
4 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

What are the Red Flags for Neu­ral Net­work Suffer­ing? - Seeds of Science call for reviewers

rogersbacon12 Aug 2022 16:17 UTC
18 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

Mike, Mouse, Moth, Machine

tobyj27 Dec 2023 10:02 UTC
23 points
4 comments7 min readEA link
(seekingtobejolly.substack.com)

Epi­sode #179 - Why is con­scious­ness some­thing worth talk­ing about? - Philoso­phize This!

BrownHairedEevee4 Jul 2023 18:38 UTC
9 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(www.philosophizethis.org)

Epi­sode #180 - What if ev­ery­thing is con­scious­ness? - Philoso­phize This!

BrownHairedEevee4 Jul 2023 18:43 UTC
8 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(www.philosophizethis.org)

Key Les­sons From So­cial Move­ment History

Jamie_Harris30 Jun 2021 17:05 UTC
122 points
24 comments11 min readEA link
(www.sentienceinstitute.org)

[link post] AI Should Be Ter­rified of Humans

BrianK24 Jul 2023 11:13 UTC
28 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(time.com)

On the longter­mist case for work­ing on farmed an­i­mals [Uncer­tain­ties & re­search ideas]

MichaelA11 Apr 2021 6:49 UTC
78 points
12 comments8 min readEA link

Why I’m skep­ti­cal about us­ing sub­jec­tive time ex­pe­rience to as­sign moral weights

Andreas_Mogensen22 Jan 2024 11:45 UTC
64 points
15 comments7 min readEA link

[Question] How wor­ried should I be about a child­less Dis­ney­land?

Will Bradshaw28 Oct 2019 15:32 UTC
24 points
8 comments1 min readEA link

The pretty hard prob­lem of consciousness

rgb20 Aug 2021 10:30 UTC
30 points
4 comments9 min readEA link

In­ter­view with Shel­ley Adamo about in­ver­te­brate consciousness

Max_Carpendale21 Jun 2019 14:40 UTC
37 points
3 comments9 min readEA link

Shar­ing the World with Digi­tal Minds

Aaron Gertler1 Dec 2020 8:00 UTC
12 points
1 comment1 min readEA link
(www.nickbostrom.com)

Mind is uncountable

Filip Sondej2 Nov 2022 11:53 UTC
25 points
4 comments3 min readEA link

Rab­bits, robots and resurrection

Patrick Wilson10 May 2022 15:00 UTC
9 points
0 comments15 min readEA link

Why I’m fo­cus­ing on in­ver­te­brate sentience

Max_Carpendale8 Dec 2018 19:24 UTC
56 points
24 comments6 min readEA link

Some thoughts on risks from nar­row, non-agen­tic AI

richard_ngo19 Jan 2021 0:07 UTC
36 points
2 comments8 min readEA link

Steer­ing AI to care for an­i­mals, and soon

Andrew Critch14 Jun 2022 1:13 UTC
221 points
37 comments1 min readEA link

In­ter­view with Michael Tye about in­ver­te­brate consciousness

Max_Carpendale8 Aug 2019 10:13 UTC
32 points
5 comments5 min readEA link

New Work­ing Paper Series of the Le­gal Pri­ori­ties Project

Legal Priorities Project18 Oct 2021 10:30 UTC
60 points
0 comments9 min readEA link

We Can’t Do Long Term Utili­tar­ian Calcu­la­tions Un­til We Know if AIs Can Be Con­scious or Not

Mike207312 Sep 2022 8:37 UTC
4 points
0 comments12 min readEA link

Google could build a con­scious AI in three months

Derek Shiller1 Oct 2022 13:24 UTC
15 points
22 comments7 min readEA link

Sen­tience or Silos?

Jeffrey Kursonis4 Sep 2022 4:03 UTC
2 points
5 comments2 min readEA link

In­ter­view with Jon Mal­latt about in­ver­te­brate consciousness

Max_Carpendale28 Apr 2019 17:52 UTC
83 points
10 comments11 min readEA link

Ques­tions about and Ob­jec­tions to ‘Shar­ing the World with Digi­tal Minds’ (2020)

David Mathers7 Oct 2022 13:36 UTC
34 points
3 comments7 min readEA link

The Me­taethics and Nor­ma­tive Ethics of AGI Value Align­ment: Many Ques­tions, Some Implications

Eleos Arete Citrini15 Sep 2021 19:05 UTC
25 points
0 comments8 min readEA link

#173 – Digi­tal minds, and how to avoid sleep­walk­ing into a ma­jor moral catas­tro­phe (Jeff Sebo on the 80,000 Hours Pod­cast)

80000_Hours29 Nov 2023 19:18 UTC
43 points
0 comments18 min readEA link

Should ChatGPT make us down­weight our be­lief in the con­scious­ness of non-hu­man an­i­mals?

splinter18 Feb 2023 23:29 UTC
11 points
15 comments2 min readEA link

Job list­ing (closed): Sen­tience In­sti­tute is ac­cept­ing ap­pli­ca­tions for a researcher

MichaelDello2 Mar 2023 4:36 UTC
19 points
0 comments5 min readEA link
(www.sentienceinstitute.org)

Joscha Bach on Syn­thetic In­tel­li­gence [an­no­tated]

Roman Leventov2 Mar 2023 11:21 UTC
2 points
0 comments9 min readEA link
(www.jimruttshow.com)

AI safety and con­scious­ness re­search: A brainstorm

Daniel_Friedrich15 Mar 2023 14:33 UTC
11 points
1 comment9 min readEA link

Public Opinion on AI Safety: AIMS 2023 and 2021 Summary

Janet Pauketat25 Sep 2023 18:09 UTC
19 points
0 comments3 min readEA link
(www.sentienceinstitute.org)

The Self in Ar­tifi­cial Con­scious­ness: A Bud­dhist In­ves­ti­ga­tion into Ad­vanced AI

Ryan Combes24 Oct 2023 4:11 UTC
10 points
2 comments1 min readEA link
(drive.google.com)

Com­mon-sense sen­tience is dubious

Timothy Chan21 Mar 2023 15:32 UTC
23 points
4 comments7 min readEA link

Sen­tience In­sti­tute 2023 End of Year Summary

MichaelDello27 Nov 2023 12:11 UTC
25 points
0 comments5 min readEA link
(www.sentienceinstitute.org)

Si­mu­la­tors and Mindcrime

𝕮𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖗𝖆9 Dec 2022 15:20 UTC
1 point
0 comments1 min readEA link

[Question] Do you think the prob­a­bil­ity of fu­ture AI sen­tience(suffer­ing) is >0.1%? Why?

jackchang11010 Jul 2023 16:41 UTC
4 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

[Linkpost] Eric Sch­witzgebel: AI sys­tems must not con­fuse users about their sen­tience or moral status

Zachary Brown18 Aug 2023 17:21 UTC
6 points
0 comments2 min readEA link
(www.sciencedirect.com)

Fu­ture tech­nolog­i­cal progress does NOT cor­re­late with meth­ods that in­volve less suffering

Jim Buhler1 Aug 2023 9:30 UTC
60 points
12 comments4 min readEA link

As­ter­isk Magaz­ine Is­sue 03: AI

Alejandro Ortega24 Jul 2023 15:53 UTC
34 points
3 comments1 min readEA link
(asteriskmag.com)

A se­lec­tion of some writ­ings and con­sid­er­a­tions on the cause of ar­tifi­cial sentience

Raphaël_Pesah10 Aug 2023 18:23 UTC
43 points
1 comment10 min readEA link

Γαμινγκ the Al­gorithms: Large Lan­guage Models as Mirrors

Haris Shekeris1 Apr 2023 2:14 UTC
5 points
3 comments4 min readEA link

An as­pira­tionally com­pre­hen­sive ty­pol­ogy of fu­ture locked-in scenarios

Milan Weibel3 Apr 2023 2:11 UTC
12 points
0 comments4 min readEA link

Tak­ing Into Ac­count Sen­tient Non-Hu­mans in AI Am­bi­tious Value Learn­ing: Sen­tien­tist Co­her­ent Ex­trap­o­lated Volition

Adrià Moret1 Dec 2023 18:01 UTC
38 points
2 comments42 min readEA link

Mo­ral Spillover in Hu­man-AI Interaction

Katerina Manoli5 Jun 2023 15:20 UTC
17 points
1 comment13 min readEA link

[Question] How come there isn’t that much fo­cus in EA on re­search into whether /​ when AI’s are likely to be sen­tient?

callum27 Apr 2023 10:09 UTC
77 points
23 comments1 min readEA link

Against Mak­ing Up Our Con­scious Minds

Silica10 Feb 2024 7:12 UTC
13 points
0 comments5 min readEA link

We Prob­a­bly Shouldn’t Solve Consciousness

Silica10 Feb 2024 7:12 UTC
33 points
5 comments16 min readEA link

Panel dis­cus­sion on AI con­scious­ness with Rob Long and Jeff Sebo

Aaron Bergman9 Sep 2023 3:38 UTC
30 points
6 comments42 min readEA link
(www.youtube.com)

Balanc­ing safety and waste

Daniel_Friedrich17 Mar 2024 10:57 UTC
6 points
0 comments7 min readEA link

Only mam­mals and birds are sen­tient, ac­cord­ing to neu­ro­scien­tist Nick Humphrey’s the­ory of con­scious­ness, re­cently ex­plained in “Sen­tience: The in­ven­tion of con­scious­ness”

ben.smith27 Dec 2023 6:18 UTC
60 points
35 comments9 min readEA link

Free Guy, a rom-com on the moral pa­tient­hood of digi­tal sentience

mic23 Dec 2021 7:47 UTC
25 points
2 comments2 min readEA link