sentience
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Even if we can’t be sure something is conscious, we might err on the side of caution by assuming it is – what philosopher Jonathan Birch calls the precautionary principle for sentience.
From Science Daily • Jun. 5, 2026
“As we improve the software, you can feel the sentience growing in the car. It feels alive.”
From MarketWatch • May 18, 2026
Plant sentience, however, is goal-directed and suggests clear cognition of the surrounding environment.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 15, 2026
“Claims around consciousness and sentience are a tactic to sell you on AI,” Bender and Hanna write.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 20, 2025
He had loved the library, and had felt, as a boy, as though it had a kind of sentience, and perhaps loved him back.
From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor
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