Anthropic calls enumerating moral-patient views 'intractable'; author suggests per-item flagging
rgblong · x · 2026-09-24
Responding to the Anthropic welfare card's claim that it would be "intractable" to investigate "every view of what the moral patient might be," the author concedes that's true — but suggests it would still be good to flag throughout, for each assessment or intervention, which view of the moral patient is meant to be implicated.
Related event: Author admits AI welfare questions are puzzling but worth pressing(2 posts)→
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