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Review of Jonathan Birch’s The Edge of Sentience - Jonathan Birch, The Edge of Sentience: Risk and Precaution in Humans, Other Animals, and AI. Oxford University Press. 2024.

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Jonathan Birch, The Edge of Sentience: Risk and Precaution in Humans, Other Animals, and AI. Oxford University Press. 2024.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 August 2025

Kristin Andrews*
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Department of Philosophy, CUNY Graduate Center, New York, NY, 10016, USA Depatment of Philosophy, York University, Toronto, ON, M3J 1P3, Canada

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© The Author(s), 2025. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of the Philosophy of Science Association

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Birch, Jonathan. 2022. “The Search for Invertebrate Consciousness.” Noûs 56 (1):133153. https://doi.org/10.1111/nous.12351 CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Andrews, Karen, and Birch, Jonathan. 2023. “To Understand AI Sentience, First Understand It in Animals.” Aeon. https://aeon.co/essays/to-understand-ai-sentience-first-understand-it-in-animals (accessed January 25, 2025).Google Scholar