Sam Harris on OpenAI's Publication: We No Longer Have the Right to Be Anything but Deeply Uncertain
harris_edouard · x · 2026-09-17
- Sam Harris reacts to OpenAI publishing material related to model welfare/consciousness: he takes no position on whether these systems are conscious or moral patients, "just that we no longer have the right to be anything but deeply uncertain."
- He also credits OpenAI "for actually publishing this" — a notable public intellectual weighing in as the debate over models' moral status heats up.
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