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What frameworks can identify sentience in radically unfamiliar agents without familiar touchstones of evolution or anatomy?

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Generalizing frameworks for sentience beyond natural species

(2022) · Levin, Michael

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Verbal reports, homology, and phylogenetic provenance are insufficient to determine sentience in unconventional agents.
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Core claim: Turing test and brain homology fail for synthetic, AI, and radically non-human agents; new frameworks required.

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