What Ralph Adolphs thinks about AI sentience

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Bren Professor of Psychology, Neuroscience and Biology at Caltech, where he studies the neuroscience of emotion and social cognition.

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1. 17 Aug 2026

   Our readingFunctionally defined emotions can be attributed to animals and, to some extent, to AI systems, without any claim about what either of them feels.

   Their wordswell but again these are functionally defined emotions and there's I think there's no problem assigning to AI to some extent and certainly to many animals uh those functional emotions

   ↗Neuroscience of Emotions & Tools for Improving Emotion Regulation | Dr. Ralph Adolphsyoutube.com 4th of 22 in this recording