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Sigal Samuel @ Vox · 05/03/2026 07:45 EDT

What’s more likely to be sentient: an ant or ChatGPT?

Sentience is hot these days. Partly because of the development of impressive new AI systems, everyone seems to be asking: How do we know if something is sentient?  While consciousness means simply having a subjective point of view on the world — a feeling of what it’s like to be you — sentience is the […]

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