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Précis of The Edge of Sentience: Risk and Precaution in Humans, Other Animals, and AI
No full textWe often face grave practical decisions that seem to hinge on whether a system is sentient. This family of cases includes invertebrate animals, people who are unresponsive after brain injury, fetuses, neural organoids, and now AI technologies. We must decide what to do despite ongoing disagreement about the nature of sentience. In our state of uncertainty, we should pragmatically transform the question from “Is it sentient?” to “Is it a sentience candidate, an investigation priority, or neither?”. When a system is a sentience candidate, it is negligent to fail to consider precautions. We should instead evaluate precautions for their proportionality using the “PARC tests”. When we think about the problems in this way, we see that overconfidence about the absence of sentience has repeatedly led decision makers to neglect serious risks. Erring on the side of caution requires many revisions to current practice in many areas of human activity
Is the World Running Out of Fresh Water?
No full textFreshwater scarcity is becoming a global crisis, with record-low river flows, severe droughts, and escalating climate change impacts disrupting water resources worldwide. Reports from the World Meteorological Organization and the World Economic Forum highlight urgent concerns, emphasizing the need for immediate action to safeguard the planet’s dwindling freshwater supply
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