{
  "canonicalUrl": "https://xn--mwe.com/glossary/sentience/",
  "claimStatus": "RESEARCH FINDING",
  "code": "K01-TERM-028",
  "correctionStatus": "CURRENT K05 RELEASE",
  "definition": "The capacity for subjective felt experience, often including pleasure, pain or affective states.",
  "lastReviewed": "2026-08-16",
  "name": "Sentience",
  "not": "Fluent language, self-report or task performance alone does not settle sentience.",
  "plain": "Sentience is an empirical and philosophical question for which machine-specific evidence remains contested.",
  "relatedTermCodes": [
    "K01-TERM-024",
    "K01-TERM-025",
    "K01-TERM-027",
    "K01-TERM-029"
  ],
  "releaseId": "K12-2026-08-16",
  "researchCutoff": "2026-08-16",
  "slug": "sentience",
  "sourceRevalidatedAt": "2026-08-15T23:00:00Z",
  "status": "RESEARCH FINDING",
  "topic": "rights-personhood",
  "type": "DefinedTerm"
}