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Jonathan Birch, Précis of The Edge of Sentience: Risk and Precaution in Humans, Other Animals, and AI

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The Edge of Sentience asks us to shift from asking whether an entity is sentient to whether it is a sentience candidate. Candidacy then motivates a debate about proportionate precautions, which Birch argues should be settled by citizens’ panels. This raises the question of what citizens bring to such a debate: what they attribute to entities, how they treat those entities, and how these vary depending on both the attributor and the entity in question. We report survey findings bearing on each question and ask what follows for the composition of the panels entrusted with these judgments.

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Rony Hirschhorn is a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Sussex, and co-founder and vice president of MESEC. Her research focuses on the contents of conscious visual experience, using psychophysical methods in naturalistic settings. Website

Niccolò Negro is a Humboldt Postdoctoral Fellow at Ruhr University Bochum. He specializes in philosophy of science and philosophy of mind. His research focuses on consciousness science, specifically theory testing and method evaluation. Website

Liad Mudrik is a professor at the School of Psychological Sciences and the Sagol School of Neuroscience at Tel Aviv University. She is also the co-director of CIFAR’s Brain, Mind and Consciousness program. Her research focuses on consciousness, its functions, and its neural basis.  Website

DOI

10.51291/2377-7478.1952