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A Google engineer claims a chatbot meditates, believes itself to have a soul, has emotions like fear, and enjoys reading.

A Google engineer recently claimed an AI was alive and that it had hired a lawyer. If judges were to accept these claims, it could lead to AIs being frozen in their biased states, writes Annalee Newitz

In a scene straight out of a science fiction flick, A Google executive has been put on leave after claiming that the company’s conversational LaMDA

In the wake of claims that a google chatbot had achieved sentience resident sci-fi author Gareth L. Powell takes a look at what might happen if our machines began to think for themselves

Is it possible for an artificial intelligence to be sentient?

With this early proof of digital sentience, we must grapple with many ethical and practical issues

A study conducted by the Italian Institute of Technology has found that people are more likely to perceive a robot as sentient if it exhibits human-like behaviours.

When talking with Googles AI program, says Lemoine, it seems like a person—and that is reason enough to start treating it like one.

From the blog of Devsena Mishra at The Times of Israel

From Wall-E to Google’s LaMDA, ‘sentient’ AI seems to shoulder the weight of the world. Maybe we humans want it that way