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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Sometimes, you just have to change the way you think—create a new frame of reference as a pure intellectual folly that, along the way, makes the orthodoxy cringe. Maybe it's time to challenge our ...