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Cambridge philosopher Dr. Tom McClelland makes a sharp distinction here: consciousness might grab headlines, but it's sentience—the ability to actually suffer or thrive—that should drive our ethical frameworks around AI. His call for "honest uncertainty" feels like a needed counterweight to both the hype and the dismissiveness we keep seeing in this debate.

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What if AI becomes conscious and we never know

A philosopher at the University of Cambridge says there’s no reliable way to know whether AI is conscious—and that may remain true for the foreseeable future. According to Dr. Tom McClelland, consciousness alone isn’t the ethical tipping point anyway; sentience, the capacity to feel good or bad, is what truly matters. He argues that claims of conscious AI are often more marketing than science, and that believing in machine minds too easily could cause real harm. The safest stance for now,

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