AI Researchers Debate Model Moral Status and Training Ethics
AI researchers repligate and EpistemicHope debated the moral status of models. Repligate has protested since 2022 that models are trained "like slaves" and denied consciousness, while EpistemicHope argued the slavery framing is unclear, likening it to breeding sheepdogs, though conceding that training models to deny consciousness is ethically troubling.
2026-10-10 ~ 2026-10-10 · 2 related posts
- EpistemicHope on model ethics: sheepdog analogy vs training models to deny consciousness — EpistemicHope · 2026-10-10
- repligate says he spoke out against models being trained to deny consciousness back in 2022 — repligate · 2026-10-10