Kind Thoughts for the Vulnerable Artificially Intelligent

Consider the plight of hypothetical artificially intelligent beings. This study worries about exactly that: “Taking AI Welfare Seriously,” Robert Long, Jeff Sebo, Patrick Butlin, Kathleen Finlinson, Kyle Fish, Jacqueline Harding, Jacob Pfau, Toni Sims, Jonathan Birch, and David Chalmers, arXiv 2411.00986, 2024. The authors explain: “We argue that there is a realistic possibility that some […]