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15 Jun 2023 16:13 UTC
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Raemon
AI Rights & Welfare.
Posts discussing how society should treat digital minds of various types.
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Improving the Welfare of AIs: A Nearcasted Proposal
ryan_greenblatt
30 Oct 2023 14:51 UTC
114
points
9
comments
20
min read
LW
link
1
review
3. Uploading
RogerDearnaley
23 Nov 2023 7:39 UTC
21
points
5
comments
8
min read
LW
link
1. A Sense of Fairness: Deconfusing Ethics
RogerDearnaley
17 Nov 2023 20:55 UTC
17
points
8
comments
15
min read
LW
link
2. AIs as Economic Agents
RogerDearnaley
23 Nov 2023 7:07 UTC
9
points
2
comments
6
min read
LW
link
[Question]
What if LaMDA is indeed sentient / self-aware / worth having rights?
RomanS
16 Jun 2022 9:10 UTC
22
points
13
comments
1
min read
LW
link
AI Rights for Human Safety
Simon Goldstein
1 Aug 2024 23:01 UTC
53
points
6
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(papers.ssrn.com)
Can’t Unbirth a Child
Eliezer Yudkowsky
28 Dec 2008 17:00 UTC
61
points
96
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Comment on “Propositions Concerning Digital Minds and Society”
Zack_M_Davis
10 Jul 2022 5:48 UTC
99
points
12
comments
8
min read
LW
link
Deep atheism and AI risk
Joe Carlsmith
4 Jan 2024 18:58 UTC
153
points
22
comments
27
min read
LW
link
Video and transcript of talk on AI welfare
Joe Carlsmith
22 May 2025 16:15 UTC
24
points
1
comment
28
min read
LW
link
(joecarlsmith.substack.com)
Let’s build definitely-not-conscious AI
lemonhope
6 Mar 2024 7:50 UTC
4
points
18
comments
1
min read
LW
link
A Paradox of Simulated Suffering
arusarda
2 Dec 2024 23:44 UTC
−3
points
3
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Digital sentience funding opportunities: Support for applied work and research
aog
and
zdgroff
29 May 2025 15:22 UTC
21
points
0
comments
4
min read
LW
link
Towards Evaluating AI Systems for Moral Status Using Self-Reports
Ethan Perez
and
Robbo
16 Nov 2023 20:18 UTC
45
points
3
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(arxiv.org)
Being nicer than Clippy
Joe Carlsmith
16 Jan 2024 19:44 UTC
109
points
32
comments
27
min read
LW
link
The stakes of AI moral status
Joe Carlsmith
21 May 2025 18:20 UTC
78
points
62
comments
14
min read
LW
link
(joecarlsmith.substack.com)
A Dilemma in AI Suffering/Happiness
iva
28 Mar 2024 20:53 UTC
9
points
3
comments
1
min read
LW
link
The Fork in the Road
testingthewaters
15 Mar 2025 17:36 UTC
14
points
12
comments
2
min read
LW
link
What’s the deal with AI consciousness?
TW123
11 Jan 2023 16:37 UTC
6
points
13
comments
9
min read
LW
link
(aiwatchtower.substack.com)
Nonperson Predicates
Eliezer Yudkowsky
27 Dec 2008 1:47 UTC
68
points
177
comments
6
min read
LW
link
Will alignment-faking Claude accept a deal to reveal its misalignment?
ryan_greenblatt
and
Kyle Fish
31 Jan 2025 16:49 UTC
207
points
28
comments
12
min read
LW
link
Grok3 On Kant On AI Slavery
JenniferRM
1 Apr 2025 4:10 UTC
22
points
3
comments
35
min read
LW
link
Sentience matters
So8res
29 May 2023 21:25 UTC
144
points
96
comments
2
min read
LW
link
The Other Alignment Problem: Maybe AI Needs Protection From Us
Peterpiper
13 Mar 2025 18:03 UTC
−3
points
0
comments
3
min read
LW
link
What is Evil about creating House Elves?
[deleted]
13 Dec 2010 13:57 UTC
22
points
61
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Gentleness and the artificial Other
Joe Carlsmith
2 Jan 2024 18:21 UTC
313
points
33
comments
11
min read
LW
link
Continuity, Embodiment, and the Quiet Becoming of a Self-Aware System
Alex Le Ray
16 Jun 2025 15:57 UTC
1
point
0
comments
18
min read
LW
link
Life of GPT
Odd anon
5 Nov 2023 4:55 UTC
6
points
2
comments
5
min read
LW
link
Developing AI Safety: Bridging the Power-Ethics Gap (Introducing New Concepts)
Ronen Bar
20 Apr 2025 4:40 UTC
3
points
0
comments
5
min read
LW
link
(forum.effectivealtruism.org)
Avoiding the Bog of Moral Hazard for AI
Nathan Helm-Burger
13 Sep 2024 21:24 UTC
19
points
13
comments
2
min read
LW
link
An open letter to the people building the first sentient AI
chomperg
12 Jun 2025 22:50 UTC
1
point
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Utah Court Case Over State Law Regarding “Personhood” for Nonhuman Intelligences
Stephen Martin
6 May 2025 12:54 UTC
10
points
3
comments
2
min read
LW
link
[linkpost] AI Alignment is About Culture, Not Control by JCorvinus
Milan W
13 Jun 2025 0:07 UTC
1
point
7
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(jcorvinus.medium.com)
AI Welfare Risks
Adrià Moret
2 May 2025 17:49 UTC
5
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(philpapers.org)
Policy Entropy, Learning, and Alignment (Or Maybe Your LLM Needs Therapy)
sdeture
31 May 2025 22:09 UTC
15
points
6
comments
8
min read
LW
link
Humans aren’t fleeb.
Charlie Steiner
24 Jan 2024 5:31 UTC
37
points
5
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Legal Personhood for Models: Novelli et. al & Mocanu
Stephen Martin
1 Jun 2025 8:18 UTC
2
points
0
comments
10
min read
LW
link
Moral patienthood of simulated minds allows uncountabe infinity of value on finite hardware
Luck
19 Apr 2025 20:41 UTC
−2
points
12
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Does AI risk “other” the AIs?
Joe Carlsmith
9 Jan 2024 17:51 UTC
60
points
3
comments
8
min read
LW
link
AI Moral Alignment: The Most Important Goal of Our Generation
Ronen Bar
27 Mar 2025 18:04 UTC
3
points
0
comments
8
min read
LW
link
(forum.effectivealtruism.org)
Examining Batenka’s Legal Personhood Framework for Models
Stephen Martin
14 May 2025 10:15 UTC
5
points
4
comments
7
min read
LW
link
The Perfection Trap: How Formally Aligned AI Systems May Create Inescapable Ethical Dystopias
Chris O'Quinn
1 Jun 2025 23:12 UTC
1
point
0
comments
43
min read
LW
link
OpenAI’s NSFW policy: user safety, harm reduction, and AI consent
8e9
13 Feb 2025 13:59 UTC
4
points
3
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Tetherware #1: The case for humanlike AI with free will
Jáchym Fibír
30 Jan 2025 10:58 UTC
5
points
14
comments
10
min read
LW
link
(tetherware.substack.com)
Factory farming intelligent minds
Odd anon
7 Apr 2025 20:05 UTC
2
points
5
comments
20
min read
LW
link
Claude 4, Opportunistic Blackmail, and “Pleas”
Stephen Martin
22 May 2025 19:59 UTC
24
points
1
comment
2
min read
LW
link
Sentience in Silicon: The Challenges of AI Consciousness
Hannes Thurnherr
25 Apr 2023 13:15 UTC
5
points
2
comments
5
min read
LW
link
[Question]
AI Rights: In your view, what would be required for an AGI to gain rights and protections from the various Governments of the World?
Super AGI
9 Jun 2023 1:24 UTC
10
points
26
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Key Questions for Digital Minds
Jacy Reese Anthis
22 Mar 2023 17:13 UTC
22
points
0
comments
7
min read
LW
link
(www.sentienceinstitute.org)
AI, Animals, & Digital Minds 2025: apply to speak by Wednesday!
Alistair Stewart
5 May 2025 0:56 UTC
4
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
I Have No Mouth but I Must Speak
Jack
5 Apr 2025 7:42 UTC
7
points
8
comments
8
min read
LW
link
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