Claims of machine “sentience” challenge Jewish notions of moral responsibility, writes a rabbi and engineer. (JTA) — When a Google engineer told an interviewer that an artificial ...

Computer scientists need to grapple with the possibility they will accidentally create sentient artificial intelligence (AI) — and to plan for those systems’ welfare, a new study argues.

First the good news: sentient AI isn't anywhere near becoming a real thing. Now the bad news: there are plenty of other problems with AI. A story about a supposedly sentient AI recently went viral.