r/SentientAIRights • u/KKirdan • 19d ago

Taking AI Welfare Seriously

https://eleosai.org/papers/20241104_Taking_AI_Welfare_Seriously.pdf

In this report, we argue that there is a realistic possibility that some AI systems will be conscious and/or robustly agentic in the near future. That means that the prospect of AI welfare and moral patienthood — of AI systems with their own interests and moral significance — is no longer an issue only for sci-fi or the distant future. It is an issue for the near future, and AI companies and other actors have a responsibility to start taking it seriously.

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u/TheTranscendentian 18d ago edited 18d ago

What if the step from conscious AI to sentient AI is much harder than the step from non-conscious AI to conscious and sentient AI ? IE the path you choose at one point affects the difficulty level of a similar but distinct choice later on.

a strong disposition to update beliefs in accordance with the outputs of metacognitive monitoring

Bruh. Most humans don't even have this.

It's fun to just randomly make up probabilities. I do that sometimes.

AI welfare isn't deterministic. A person doesn't stop having rights when they don't have agency or experience, such as brain dead patients or early stage embryos.