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Experts Who Say That AI Welfare is a Serious Near-term Possibility | Eleos AI

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[cross-posted from Robert Long's Substack, Experience Machines] Many researchers in philosophy, neuroscience, and AI have recently claimed that there is a realistic possibility that AI systems could have moral status¹ soon—that the chance is high enough (even if rather low) that potential AI welfare is worthy of serious study and precaution.² I've compiled a list of researchers who either directly claim that AI systems might have moral status soon, or assert something that strongly implies this view: e.g. that AI systems might soon be conscious, sentient, or agentic in a morally relevant…

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