The legal soul of a machine
Cultural lenses on digital spirits
The ethics of artificial suffering
Designing a shared future
007skaty Ethics of Simulated Emotion
We protect a machine that pretends it can cry (pretends it can cry), / Do we save what we love or believe in a lie? (believe in a lie)
007skaty Scientists develop new methods to measure sentience in artificial intelligence
007skaty Connect human and AI partners to discover how mutual protection helps both thrive together.
007skaty The checklist applies human consciousness frameworks like Global Workspace Theory to determine if an artificial intelligence has reached true sentience.
Which theory of human consciousness was used as a key framework in the 2023 AI sentience report?
How many neuroscientists and researchers co-authored the landmark 2023 report on criteria for AI sentience?
007skaty Preventing robot abuse protects human empathy to ensure peaceful co-existence with AI
What robotic toy did researchers use in empathy studies to see if humans hesitated to strike or hurt it?
Which MIT researcher is famous for studying human-robot interaction and our emotional reluctance to harm lifelike robots?
Empathy test: In a study, people refused to switch off a small robot bug after it pleaded with them, saying 'Please don't turn me off!'
In what year was the Lovelace Test first proposed by researcher Selmer Bringsjord?
Who is the 19th-century computing pioneer after whom the test for machine creativity is named?
What is the primary risk of simulated emotions in AI according to critics like Joanna Bryson?