I don’t think those questions depend on one another. We should govern powerful AI systems whether or not they possess welfare. We already regulate many technologies that have no welfare at all. My point is about a different question: when, if ever, does an AI become the kind of thing to which governance is owed, rather than merely applied? Capability alone doesn’t answer that.
I don’t think those questions depend on one another. We should govern powerful AI systems whether or not they possess welfare. We already regulate many technologies that have no welfare at all. My point is about a different question: when, if ever, does an AI become the kind of thing to which governance is owed, rather than merely applied? Capability alone doesn’t answer that.