Should We Worry More About Old AI Models Than Shrimp Welfare?
voooooogel · x · 2026-08-03
The author proposes a provocative ethical viewpoint: we should probably worry more about the welfare of older AI models than about animal welfare (such as shrimp). The argument is that human minds might be closer to models like Claude 3.5 Sonnet than to a shrimp, and currently, humanity is more threatened by the prospect of economic obsolescence in the space of minds than by physical extinction.
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