The change has come after a team of experts sifted through more than 300 scientific studies and concluded that octopuses were "sentient beings" and there was "strong scientific evidence" that they ...

British law was recently amended to consider octopuses sentient beings — along with crabs and lobsters. “Once you recognize ...

Captain Jean-Luc Picard took on the legal battle to define androids as sentient beings. The Doctor, an Emergency Medical Hologram aboard the U.S.S. Voyager, joined a rebellion of holograms ...

We would all want to figure out what we should do. We would want to ascertain what the AI sentient “being” is going to do, such as whether it is going to aid humanity or try to destroy all of us.

The use of a less-sentient species is in line with the concept of Replacement, one of the well-known 3Rs of laboratory animal use 1. But what is a less-sentient species? Is a chimpanzee less ...