Jonathan Birch

London School of Economics and Political Science — United Kingdom

Social Sciences · Social Sciences

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Research Topics

Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation(44), Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment(16), Philosophy and History of Science(15), Traumatic Brain Injury Research(12), Evolution and Genetic Dynamics(12)

Publications145 total

Sentience in cephalopod molluscs: an updated assessment
Biological reviews/Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society·2026
When and why are motivational trade-offs evidence of sentience?
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences·2025· 5 cited
Identifying indicators of consciousness in AI systems
Trends in Cognitive Sciences·2025· 2 cited
Protecting animal cultures as World Heritage
Nature Sustainability·2025· 1 cited
AI Consciousness: A Centrist Manifesto
2025· 1 citedOpen Access
Sentience and the science–policy nexus: Replies to Wandrey and Halina, and Bayne
Mind & Language·2025
What will society think about AI consciousness? Lessons from the animal case
Trends in Cognitive Sciences·2025· 3 citedOpen Access
The influence of mental state attributions on trust in large language models
Communications Psychology·2025· 3 citedOpen Access
Précis of The Edge of Sentience: Risk and Precaution in Humans, Other Animals, and AI
Animal Sentience·2025Open Access
Animal welfare risks from commercial practices involving cephalopod molluscs and decapod crustaceans
Animal Welfare·2025· 3 citedOpen Access
It’s hard to distinguish conscious from unconscious states in patients – a more precautionary approach is needed
2024
Taking AI Welfare Seriously
arXiv (Cornell University)·2024· 18 citedOpen Access
Can LLMs make trade-offs involving stipulated pain and pleasure states?
arXiv (Cornell University)·2024· 2 citedOpen Access
To test the boundaries of consciousness, study animals
Trends in Cognitive Sciences·2024· 4 cited
When is a brain organoid a sentience candidate?
Molecular Psychology Brain Behavior and Society·2024· 1 cited
Support US OCTOPUS Act to keep octopuses wild
Science·2024· 7 cited
Publisher Acknowledgements
2024
Converging on Precautions
2024
Involving the Public
2024
Summary of the Framework and Proposals
2024
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Frequent Co-authors

Andrew Crump(8), Heather Browning(7), Charlotte C. Burn(4), Alexandra K. Schnell(3), Simona Ginsburg(3), Eva Jablonka(3), Nicola S. Clayton(2), Alex Schnell(2), Patrick Butlin(2), Chris Frith(2), Colin Klein(2), Matthias Michel(2), Megan A. K. Peters(2), Matilda Gibbons(2), Meghan Barrett(2), Lars Chıttka(2), Cecilia Heyes(2), Robert P. Long(1), Eric Elmoznino(1), Yoshua Bengio(1)