A few weeks ago, I spoke with Annie Lowrey at The Atlantic about digital minds, especially how to assess mental faculties such as reasoning and sentience and how we can draw lessons from the history of human-animal interaction for the future of human-AI interaction—both how humans will treat AIs and how AIs will treat humans. A shortened version of our conversation is available on The Atlantic website under the title “What Does Sentience Really Mean?” and if you hit a paywall, you can subscribe or access an archived version.
Since the release of ChatGPT in November 2022, there have been many more mainstream discussions of AI. I have also conducted a number of radio and podcast interviews, such as with Chuck Todd and Detroit NPR, and I published two op-eds: “We Need an AI Rights Movement” in The Hill and “Why We Need a ‘Manhattan Project’ for A.I. Safety” in Salon. Our team at Sentience Institute is almost exclusively focused on digital minds research, rather than outreach, but we are always open to requests for comments and discussions that build on our expertise. You can reach us most reliably at info@sentienceinstitute.org.