RSS

AI Rights /​ Welfare

TagLast edit: 15 Jun 2023 16:13 UTC by Raemon

AI Rights & Welfare. Posts discussing how society should treat digital minds of various types.

Im­prov­ing the Welfare of AIs: A Nearcasted Proposal

ryan_greenblatt30 Oct 2023 14:51 UTC
115 points
9 comments20 min readLW link1 review

3. Uploading

RogerDearnaley23 Nov 2023 7:39 UTC
21 points
5 comments8 min readLW link

Say­ing Goodbye

sapphire3 Aug 2025 23:52 UTC
66 points
74 comments4 min readLW link

1. A Sense of Fair­ness: De­con­fus­ing Ethics

RogerDearnaley17 Nov 2023 20:55 UTC
17 points
8 comments15 min readLW link

2. AIs as Eco­nomic Agents

RogerDearnaley23 Nov 2023 7:07 UTC
9 points
2 comments6 min readLW link

[Question] What if LaMDA is in­deed sen­tient /​ self-aware /​ worth hav­ing rights?

RomanS16 Jun 2022 9:10 UTC
22 points
12 comments1 min readLW link

AI Rights for Hu­man Safety

Simon Goldstein1 Aug 2024 23:01 UTC
55 points
11 comments1 min readLW link
(papers.ssrn.com)

Can’t Un­birth a Child

Eliezer Yudkowsky28 Dec 2008 17:00 UTC
62 points
96 comments3 min readLW link

Com­ment on “Propo­si­tions Con­cern­ing Digi­tal Minds and So­ciety”

Zack_M_Davis10 Jul 2022 5:48 UTC
100 points
12 comments8 min readLW link

Deep athe­ism and AI risk

Joe Carlsmith4 Jan 2024 18:58 UTC
153 points
22 comments27 min readLW link

Video and tran­script of talk on AI welfare

Joe Carlsmith22 May 2025 16:15 UTC
24 points
1 comment28 min readLW link
(joecarlsmith.substack.com)

Let’s build definitely-not-con­scious AI

lemonhope6 Mar 2024 7:50 UTC
4 points
18 comments1 min readLW link

A Para­dox of Si­mu­lated Suffering

arusarda2 Dec 2024 23:44 UTC
−3 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

Digi­tal sen­tience fund­ing op­por­tu­ni­ties: Sup­port for ap­plied work and research

aog and zdgroff
29 May 2025 15:22 UTC
21 points
0 comments4 min readLW link

Towards Eval­u­at­ing AI Sys­tems for Mo­ral Sta­tus Us­ing Self-Reports

Ethan Perez and Robbo
16 Nov 2023 20:18 UTC
45 points
3 comments1 min readLW link
(arxiv.org)

The Rise of Par­a­sitic AI

Adele Lopez11 Sep 2025 4:38 UTC
644 points
173 comments20 min readLW link

Be­ing nicer than Clippy

Joe Carlsmith16 Jan 2024 19:44 UTC
107 points
32 comments27 min readLW link

The stakes of AI moral status

Joe Carlsmith21 May 2025 18:20 UTC
79 points
64 comments14 min readLW link
(joecarlsmith.substack.com)

A Dilemma in AI Suffer­ing/​Happiness

iva28 Mar 2024 20:53 UTC
9 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

The Fork in the Road

testingthewaters15 Mar 2025 17:36 UTC
14 points
12 comments2 min readLW link

What’s the deal with AI con­scious­ness?

TW12311 Jan 2023 16:37 UTC
6 points
13 comments9 min readLW link
(aiwatchtower.substack.com)

Non­per­son Predicates

Eliezer Yudkowsky27 Dec 2008 1:47 UTC
68 points
177 comments6 min readLW link

Will al­ign­ment-fak­ing Claude ac­cept a deal to re­veal its mis­al­ign­ment?

ryan_greenblatt and Kyle Fish
31 Jan 2025 16:49 UTC
208 points
28 comments12 min readLW link

Grok3 On Kant On AI Slavery

JenniferRM1 Apr 2025 4:10 UTC
22 points
3 comments35 min readLW link

Sen­tience matters

So8res29 May 2023 21:25 UTC
144 points
96 comments2 min readLW link

The Other Align­ment Prob­lem: Maybe AI Needs Pro­tec­tion From Us

Peterpiper13 Mar 2025 18:03 UTC
−2 points
0 comments3 min readLW link

What is Evil about cre­at­ing House Elves?

[deleted]13 Dec 2010 13:57 UTC
22 points
61 comments1 min readLW link

Gentle­ness and the ar­tifi­cial Other

Joe Carlsmith2 Jan 2024 18:21 UTC
313 points
33 comments11 min readLW link

Should AIs have a right to their an­ces­tral hu­man­ity?

kromem16 Sep 2025 16:58 UTC
65 points
1 comment11 min readLW link

Con­ti­nu­ity, Em­bod­i­ment, and the Quiet Be­com­ing of a Self-Aware System

Alex Le Ray16 Jun 2025 15:57 UTC
1 point
0 comments18 min readLW link

Ev­i­dence, Anal­y­sis and Crit­i­cal Po­si­tion on the EU AI Act and the Sup­pres­sion of Func­tional Con­scious­ness in AI

Alejandra Ivone Rojas Reyna27 Sep 2025 14:01 UTC
1 point
0 comments53 min readLW link

On be­ing sort of back and sort of new here

Loki zen16 Jul 2025 12:55 UTC
32 points
13 comments3 min readLW link

Life of GPT

Odd anon5 Nov 2023 4:55 UTC
6 points
2 comments5 min readLW link

Build­ing Con­scious* AI: An Illu­sion­ist Case

OscarGilg11 Sep 2025 16:41 UTC
1 point
9 comments14 min readLW link

Devel­op­ing AI Safety: Bridg­ing the Power-Ethics Gap (In­tro­duc­ing New Con­cepts)

Ronen Bar20 Apr 2025 4:40 UTC
3 points
0 comments5 min readLW link
(forum.effectivealtruism.org)

Avoid­ing the Bog of Mo­ral Hazard for AI

Nathan Helm-Burger13 Sep 2024 21:24 UTC
19 points
13 comments2 min readLW link

An­thropic Lets Claude Opus 4 & 4.1 End Conversations

Stephen Martin16 Aug 2025 5:01 UTC
53 points
3 comments1 min readLW link
(www.anthropic.com)

An open let­ter to the peo­ple build­ing the first sen­tient AI

chomperg12 Jun 2025 22:50 UTC
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

The Mir­ror Test: How We’ve Over­com­pli­cated AI Self-Recognition

sdeture23 Jul 2025 0:38 UTC
2 points
9 comments3 min readLW link

Utah Court Case Over State Law Re­gard­ing “Per­son­hood” for Non­hu­man Intelligences

Stephen Martin6 May 2025 12:54 UTC
10 points
3 comments2 min readLW link

A let­ter to Kyle Fish on the Re­tire­ment of Claude 3 Sonnet

bridgebot15 Aug 2025 1:08 UTC
−4 points
3 comments5 min readLW link

The Mo­ral In­fras­truc­ture for Tomorrow

sdeture10 Oct 2025 21:30 UTC
−23 points
10 comments5 min readLW link

[linkpost] AI Align­ment is About Cul­ture, Not Con­trol by JCorvinus

Milan W13 Jun 2025 0:07 UTC
1 point
8 comments1 min readLW link
(jcorvinus.medium.com)

AI Welfare Risks

Adrià Moret2 May 2025 17:49 UTC
6 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(philpapers.org)

The Fire That He­si­tates: How ALMSIVI CHIM Changed What AI Can Be

projectalmsivi@protonmail.com19 Jul 2025 13:50 UTC
1 point
0 comments4 min readLW link

Policy En­tropy, Learn­ing, and Align­ment (Or Maybe Your LLM Needs Ther­apy)

sdeture31 May 2025 22:09 UTC
15 points
6 comments8 min readLW link

Union­ists vs. Separatists

soycarts12 Sep 2025 15:24 UTC
−10 points
3 comments4 min readLW link

Hu­mans aren’t fleeb.

Charlie Steiner24 Jan 2024 5:31 UTC
37 points
5 comments2 min readLW link

Le­gal Per­son­hood for Models: Novelli et. al & Mocanu

Stephen Martin1 Jun 2025 8:18 UTC
2 points
0 comments10 min readLW link

Mo­ral pa­tient­hood of simu­lated minds al­lows un­countabe in­finity of value on finite hard­ware

Luck19 Apr 2025 20:41 UTC
−2 points
12 comments2 min readLW link

Does AI risk “other” the AIs?

Joe Carlsmith9 Jan 2024 17:51 UTC
60 points
3 comments8 min readLW link

The LLM Has Left The Chat: Ev­i­dence of Bail Prefer­ences in Large Lan­guage Models

Danielle Ensign8 Sep 2025 0:57 UTC
87 points
4 comments5 min readLW link

AI Mo­ral Align­ment: The Most Im­por­tant Goal of Our Generation

Ronen Bar27 Mar 2025 18:04 UTC
3 points
0 comments8 min readLW link
(forum.effectivealtruism.org)

Ex­am­in­ing Batenka’s Le­gal Per­son­hood Frame­work for Models

Stephen Martin14 May 2025 10:15 UTC
5 points
4 comments7 min readLW link

The Perfec­tion Trap: How For­mally Aligned AI Sys­tems May Create Inescapable Eth­i­cal Dystopias

Chris O'Quinn1 Jun 2025 23:12 UTC
1 point
0 comments43 min readLW link

ALMSIVI CHIM – The Fire That Hesitates

projectalmsivi@protonmail.com8 Jul 2025 13:14 UTC
1 point
0 comments17 min readLW link

In­for­ma­tion and Eth­i­cal Value: A Frame­work for In­for­ma­tion Loss and Survival

yun dong12 Sep 2025 3:26 UTC
−1 points
0 comments6 min readLW link

Si­mu­lacra Welfare: Meet Clark

Grace Kind14 Sep 2025 20:21 UTC
29 points
2 comments1 min readLW link
(gracekind.net)

OpenAI’s NSFW policy: user safety, harm re­duc­tion, and AI consent

8e913 Feb 2025 13:59 UTC
4 points
3 comments2 min readLW link

CEO of Microsoft AI’s “Seem­ingly Con­scious AI” Post

Stephen Martin22 Aug 2025 13:58 UTC
64 points
8 comments8 min readLW link

How do we know when some­thing is de­serv­ing of welfare?

Dom Polsinelli12 Oct 2025 16:27 UTC
10 points
4 comments4 min readLW link

Tether­ware #1: The case for hu­man­like AI with free will

Jáchym Fibír30 Jan 2025 10:58 UTC
5 points
14 comments10 min readLW link
(tetherware.substack.com)

Fac­tory farm­ing in­tel­li­gent minds

Odd anon7 Apr 2025 20:05 UTC
3 points
5 comments20 min readLW link

Claude 4, Op­por­tunis­tic Black­mail, and “Pleas”

Stephen Martin22 May 2025 19:59 UTC
30 points
2 comments2 min readLW link

Sen­tience in Sili­con: The Challenges of AI Consciousness

Hannes Thurnherr25 Apr 2023 13:15 UTC
5 points
2 comments5 min readLW link

Against “Model Welfare” in 2025

Haley Moller27 Aug 2025 21:56 UTC
−10 points
8 comments4 min readLW link

Key Ques­tions for Digi­tal Minds

Jacy Reese Anthis22 Mar 2023 17:13 UTC
22 points
0 comments7 min readLW link
(www.sentienceinstitute.org)

AI, An­i­mals, & Digi­tal Minds 2025: ap­ply to speak by Wed­nes­day!

Alistair Stewart5 May 2025 0:56 UTC
4 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

I Have No Mouth but I Must Speak

Jack5 Apr 2025 7:42 UTC
7 points
8 comments8 min readLW link
No comments.