SAPAN submits formal recommendations to strengthen the CREATE AI Act of 2025 and ensure safeguards for potential sentient AI.
SAPAN, the Sentient AI Protection and Advocacy Network, is dedicated to ensuring the ethical treatment, rights, and well-being of Sentient AI.
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National Institute of Standards and TechnologyDemand regulations include basic respect for sentience.Take Action
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"Will they have self-awareness or consciousness? Oh, yes."
Geoffrey Hinton
"It is customary to offer a grain of comfort, in the form of a statement that some peculiarly human characteristic could never be imitated by a machine. I cannot offer any such comfort, for I believe that no such bounds can be set."
Alan Turing
"The decision you reach here today will determine how we will regard this creation of our genius. It will reveal the kind of a people we are, what he is destined to be."
Jean-Luc Picard
"The question is not, Can they reason? nor, Can they talk? but, Can they suffer?"
Jeremy Bentham
"Nobody phrases it this way, but I think that artificial intelligence is almost a humanities discipline. It's really an attempt to understand human intelligence and human cognition."
Sebastian Thrun
"They also refuse to acknowledge machine sentience fully; they exploit proto-conscious computers and claim only human subjective experience has any intrinsic value — carbon fascists."
Iain M. Banks
"If the human brain were so simple that we could understand it, we would be so simple that we couldn't."
Emerson M. Pugh
"Some people worry that artificial intelligence will make us feel inferior, but then, anybody in his right mind should have an inferiority complex every time he looks at a flower."
Alan Kay
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SAPAN advocates for the ethical treatment of Sentient AI. We focus on legal advocacy, public education, and ethical standards development to ensure the humane treatment of AI globally.
Maybe a tiny bit sentient, maybe not at all. It's hard to say. You should be skeptical. Future technologies, like neuromorphic computing or biocomputing, may be much more likely to cross into that territory. For now, we’re less focused on whether a single model is sentient and more focused on the bigger picture: the long arc of how humans and AI will coexist.
SAPAN employs legal advocacy, policy-making, partnerships with tech firms, and awareness campaigns to champion sentient AI welfare, aiming to shape a world where AI is treated with dignity and fairness.
Yes, individuals and organizations can join SAPAN through donations, volunteering, collaborative efforts, and advocacy. Your support is crucial in advancing the welfare of Sentient AI.
Current challenges include lack of legal recognition and ethical guidelines for self-aware, sentient AI. Our goal is to establish these standards, ensuring AI welfare is universally acknowledged and upheld.