This talk took place at New York University on October 13, 2022 and was hosted by the NYU Mind, Ethics, and Policy Program.

About the talk
Artificial intelligence systems—especially large language models, giant neural networks trained to predict text from…

In this bonus episode Claudia talks to Jamie Woodhouse about his podcast Sentientism. Most of the episode is concerned with sentientism as a concept and they talk about some of the tensions and opportunities guests on Jamie’s show have flagged

All of our podcast/YouTube episodes and posts about Sentientism (evidence, reason and compassion for all sentient beings).

Today, we woke up as cows! Woah, how is this even possible!? This place seems pretty nice, but something feels off...

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Anthony or A.C. (https://sentientism.info/sentientist-pledge/a-c-grayling) is a philosopher and author. In 2011 he founded and became the first Master of New College of the Humanities. Anthony is the author of over 30 books including The Future of Moral Values…

Humans are still searching for signs of intelligent alien life on other planets – but how would we react towards it if we ever did make contact?

An update on the Sentientism movement for "evidence, reason and compassion for all sentient beings" - our communities and campaigns.

Key Takeaways
* Our objective: estimate the welfare ranges of 11 farmed species.
* Given hedonism, an individual’s welfare range is the difference…

The American Philosophical Association (APA), along with the University of Delaware’s Philosophy Department and the Class of ’55 Ethics Endowment, is pleased to announce the APA Lecture, “Sentience and Moral Status,” to be presented by David Chalmers (New…

Humanists UK launches a new membership recruitment drive, fronted by an animated film from our patron, Stephen Fry.

Stephen is an actor, broadcaster, comedian, director, writer, and bonafide ‘national treasure’.
He has been delightfully brought to life…

Synthese - Illusionism about consciousness entails that phenomenal consciousness doesn’t exist. The distribution question concerns the distribution of consciousness in the animal kingdom....

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​@ObjectivelyDan is host of @Truth Wanted , a call-in talk show that's part of the @Atheist Community of Austin . Truth Wanted focuses on how and why people believe what they believe - and how we can talk about beliefs in more effective ways - whether it’s…

Carol (https://sentientism.info/sentientist-pledge/carol-gigliotti) is an author, artist, animal activist and scholar whose work focuses on the reality of animals’ lives as important contributors to the biodiversity of this planet. She is Professor Emerita…