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Saving Artificial Minds
This is the first book to investigate the nature and extent of artificial intelligence (AI) suffering risks. It argues that AI suffering risk is a serious near-term concern and analyzes approaches for addressing it.
AI systems are currently treated as mere objects, not as bearers of moral standing whose wellbeing may matter in its own right. However, we may soon create AI systems which are capable of suffering and thus have moral standing. This book examines the philosophy and science of AI suffering risks. Its investigation is deeply grounded in philosophy of mind, comparative psychology, the science of consciousness, AI research, and applied AI ethics. The book has three primary
• It argues that there is a significant probability that we will soon create AI systems capable of suffering.
• It presents the first systematic assessment of approaches for reducing AI suffering risks.
• It provides a rigorous overview and discussion of the most important research and ideas on AI sentience, AI agency, and the grounds of moral status.
Saving Artificial Minds is essential reading for researchers and graduate students working on the philosophy or ethics of AI.
AI systems are currently treated as mere objects, not as bearers of moral standing whose wellbeing may matter in its own right. However, we may soon create AI systems which are capable of suffering and thus have moral standing. This book examines the philosophy and science of AI suffering risks. Its investigation is deeply grounded in philosophy of mind, comparative psychology, the science of consciousness, AI research, and applied AI ethics. The book has three primary
• It argues that there is a significant probability that we will soon create AI systems capable of suffering.
• It presents the first systematic assessment of approaches for reducing AI suffering risks.
• It provides a rigorous overview and discussion of the most important research and ideas on AI sentience, AI agency, and the grounds of moral status.
Saving Artificial Minds is essential reading for researchers and graduate students working on the philosophy or ethics of AI.
214 pages, Paperback
Published October 24, 2025
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January 25, 2026
Saving Artificial Minds takes on an important topic, the possibility of AI suffering, but does so in a way that feels overcautious and oddly disconnected from how modern AI systems actually work. The argument proceeds through layers of philosophical framing and risk management that will be familiar to readers of contemporary AI ethics, yet it rarely engages meaningfully with technical details beyond a very high level, which makes many of its concerns feel abstract and speculative rather than grounded.
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