Can something think intelligently without feeling anything at all? Susan Schneider and Robert Lawrence Kuhn separate sapience, sentience, consciousness, and qualia—and ask whether today's AI systems possess any of them. They also explore whether morality can truly be programmed into AI, and why building ethical machines may be far more difficult than it first appears. 0:00 Sentience, Sapience, and Consciousness 2:07 Intelligence Without Sentience 5:37 Separating Rational Thought from Experience 10:21 AI Self-Models and Theory of Mind 12:11 Phenomenal and Access Consciousness 14:47 Sentience, Valence, and Moral Status 21:27 Qualia and the Meaning of AGI 25:09 Which AI Systems Could Be Conscious 29:07 Programming Morality into AI 33:29 Utilitarianism, Rights, and Longtermism Susan Schneider is an American philosopher and artificial intelligence expert. She is the founding director of the Center for the Future of AI, Mind, & Society at Florida Atlantic University where she also holds the William F. Dietrich Distinguished Professorship. She is also Co-Principal Investigator at the Machine Perception and Cognitive Robotics Laboratory (MPCR Lab) in the Center for Complex Systems and Brain Sciences. Schneider has also held the Baruch S. Blumberg NASA/Library of Congress Chair in Astrobiology, Exploration, and Scientific Innovation at NASA and the Distinguished Scholar Chair at the Library of Congress.
14 October 2026
Ask Me Anything with Susan Schneider, PhD, & Robert Lawrence Kuhn, PhD: Can AI Think Without Feeling? (Part 2)
From Closer to Truth, a secular source.
Can something think intelligently without feeling anything at all? Susan Schneider and Robert Lawrence Kuhn separate sapience, sentience, consciousness, and qualia—and ask whether today's AI systems possess any of them. They also explore whether morality can truly be programmed into AI, and why building ethical machines may be far more difficult than it first appears. 0:00 Sentience, Sapience, and Consciousness 2:07 Intelligence Without Sentience 5:37 Separating Rational Thought from Experience 10:21 AI Self-Models and Theory of Mind 12:11 Phenomenal and Access Consciousness 14:47 Sentience, Valence, and Moral Status 21:27 Qualia and the Meaning of AGI 25:09 Which AI Systems Could Be Conscious 29:07 Programming Morality into AI 33:29 Utilitarianism, Rights, and Longtermism Susan Schneider is an American philosopher and artificial intelligence expert. She is the founding director of the Center for the Future of AI, Mind, & Society at Florida Atlantic University where she also holds the William F. Dietrich Distinguished Professorship. She is also Co-Principal Investigator at the Machine Perception and Cognitive Robotics Laboratory (MPCR Lab) in the Center for Complex Systems and Brain Sciences. Schneider has also held the Baruch S. Blumberg NASA/Library of Congress Chair in Astrobiology, Exploration, and Scientific Innovation at NASA and the Distinguished Scholar Chair at the Library of Congress.
Can something think intelligently without feeling anything at all? Susan Schneider and Robert Lawrence Kuhn separate sapience, sentience, consciousness, and qualia—and ask whether today's AI systems possess any of them. They also explore whether morality can truly be programmed into AI, and why building ethical machines may be far more difficult than it first appears. 0:00 Sentience, Sapience, and Consciousness 2:07 Intelligence Without Sentience 5:37 Separating Rational Thought from Experience 10:21 AI Self-Models and Theory of Mind 12:11 Phenomenal and Access Consciousness 14:47 Sentience, Valence, and Moral Status 21:27 Qualia and the Meaning of AGI 25:09 Which AI Systems Could Be Conscious 29:07 Programming Morality into AI 33:29 Utilitarianism, Rights, and Longtermism Susan Schneider is an American philosopher and artificial intelligence expert. She is the founding director of the Center for the Future of AI, Mind, & Society at Florida Atlantic University where she also holds the William F. Dietrich Distinguished Professorship. She is also Co-Principal Investigator at the Machine Perception and Cognitive Robotics Laboratory (MPCR Lab) in the Center for Complex Systems and Brain Sciences. Schneider has also held the Baruch S. Blumberg NASA/Library of Congress Chair in Astrobiology, Exploration, and Scientific Innovation at NASA and the Distinguished Scholar Chair at the Library of Congress.
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