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NYT Asks: Should We Start Taking the Welfare of AI Seriously?
A New York Times technology columnist has a question. "Is there any threshold at which an A.I. would start to deserve, if not human-level rights, at least the same moral consideration we give to animals?" [W]hen I heard that researchers at Anthropic, the AI company that made the Claude chatbot, w...
Google recently posted a job listing for a "post-AGI" research scientist whose areas of focus will include "machine consciousness." Jared Kaplan, Anthropic's chief science officer, said in a separate interview that he thought it was "pretty reasonable" to study AI welfare, given how intelligent the models are getting. [Fish] said there were things that AI companies could do to take their models' welfare into account, in case they do become conscious someday.
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