Artificial sentience

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.

Harris, Jamie & Jacy Reese Anthis (2021) The moral consideration of artificial entities: a literature review, Science and Engineering Ethics, vol. 27, p. 53.27.

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.

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]

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

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

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

Further reading

Harris, Jamie & Jacy Reese Anthis (2021) The moral consideration of artificial entities: a literature review, Science and Engineering Ethics, vol. 27, p. 53.

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

Artificial sentience (sometimes called digital sentience) is the capacity to experience pleasure and pain instantiated in artificial minds, such as anarising from artificial general intelligence or whole brain emulation.

Center for Reducing Suffering | long-term future | moral circle expansion | moral patienthood | non-humans and the long-term future | whole brain emulation