When AI researchers talk about the risks of advanced AI, they’re typically either talking about immediate risks, like algorithmic bias and misinformation, or existential risks, as in the danger that ...

LSE Philosophy Professor and Director of the Jeremy Coller Centre for Animal Sentience Jonathan Birch has been awarded the Nayef Al-Rodhan Book Prize. The judging panel has chosen The Edge of ...

Dr. Jonathan Birch The doctors of Purety Family Medical Clinic will host their clinic’s community grand opening event from 6:30 to 8 p.m. Tuesday, May 19 at its upper State Street location. The event ...

As our understanding of animal minds grows, so too does the challenge of turning insight into impact, says Jonathan Birch, whose research is shaping the effort to return the UK to a global leadership ...

Jonathan Gold is the Pulitzer Prize-winning food writer for the LA Times. This week he reviews Birch, a stripped-down small-plates restaurant in the Cahuenga corridor of Hollywood.

There is good reason to believe fish, amphibians, molluscs and insects are sentient, according to a new declaration signed by three dozen scientists. The New York Declaration on Animal Consciousness ...

Do animals have sentience? Do they have a point of view? Can they look out at the blue sky, the flowers, and perceive the objects around them? Can they feel pleasure or pain? Many agree that mammals ...

Sentience means the ability to feel. Scholars from many different disciplines are very interested in who/what is sentient and who/what isn't—what I call the biodiversity of sentience. I like to say ...

The nature of consciousness has long intrigued philosophers, scientists, and the general public alike. It raises profound questions about awareness, experience, and the very essence of being.

Sentience means the ability to feel. Scholars from many different disciplines are very interested in who/what is sentient and who/what isn't—what I call the biodiversity of sentience. I like to say ...