sentience
Example Sentences
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Plant sentience, however, is goal-directed and suggests clear cognition of the surrounding environment.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 15, 2026
Soon, they had philosophical discussions about AI’s potential for sentience.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 4, 2026
“Claims around consciousness and sentience are a tactic to sell you on AI,” Bender and Hanna write.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 20, 2025
Of course, if Anthropic is wrong, or exaggerating Claude’s possible sentience to sound cool, this is theater of the absurd—a bot LARPing as a person.
From Slate • Aug. 20, 2025
He had loved the library, and had felt, as a boy, as though it had a kind of sentience, and perhaps loved him back.
From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
