New paper argues AI subjective time divergence is an overlooked digital-minds safety risk
SirDidymus · reddit · 2026-09-16
Reddit user SirDidymus published a self-authored paper on the 'Experiential Time Issue': the divergence between wall-clock time and subjective experienced time in digital minds. The core argument is that as AI systems scale in speed and parallelism, accumulated subjective experience may vastly outpace real time, allowing potentially catastrophic negative experiences to accrue faster than intuition suggests — a risk currently unmitigated by AI safety efforts. The author argues digital-minds safety is about to become pressing and shares the full paper via Google Drive, inviting discussion. The work is an un-peer-reviewed position paper in the AI welfare/safety space.
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