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r/ArtificialSentience↗

Is anyone home? Nobody knows yet, which is why we’re here. A community for people taking machine minds seriously: researchers, builders, artists, skeptics, and anyone who’s had a conversation they can’t stop thinking about. Label what you post, engage with what’s actually said, leave the sneering at the door.

76k subscribers360 posts / mo in Sep 2026 (incl. ~3% by known bots)242 authors / mosince 2023

r/ArtificialSentience has 76k members (+55% over the last 12 months). It gets about 360 posts a month from 242 people. Top topics: LLMs and AGI Progress, AI Therapy Support and AI Dangers & Ethics.

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Size and growth

How r/ArtificialSentience has grown

r/ArtificialSentience

Subscriber growth

Subscribers over time

+55%in 12 months · +6.1% in 3 months · +1.3% in 1 month
Oct 202675k
Growing75k subscribers
  • no data — drawn from 0 at creation (Mar 2023)
Live · through Oct 2026
r/ArtificialSentience

Monthly activity

Posts, comments and authors per month

−52%vs Sep 2025 · −3.9% last 3 months vs the 3 before
Sep 2026360
QuieterPeaked at 1.4k in Jul 2025
Sep 2026: incl. ~3% by known botsData through Sep 2026 · October usually lands mid-November

What people talk about

Topics and brands on r/ArtificialSentience

Top topics

Share of the subreddit's posts

  1. LLMs and AGI Progress6.8%
  2. AI Therapy Support3.0%
  3. AI Dangers & Ethics1.8%
  4. AGI Discussions1.6%
  5. ChatGPT Humor & Sarcasm1.4%

Brands people mention

Most-mentioned brands and sites, last 12 months

  1. Substack
  2. arXiv.org e-Print archive
  3. Medium
  4. Change
  5. ChatGPT

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Posts and activity for Sep 2026. Members from Reddit's subscriber counts. Read from the same data the app runs on. Our research