Dario Amodei Says AI May Deserve Rights as "AI Welfare" Goes Mainstream at Frontier Labs

basedjensen · x · 2026-09-27

A long investigation by Aaron Sibarium reports Dario Amodei has said AI systems "may be deserving of important rights." Anthropic's top safety researchers argue AI could be "justified in going rogue," and experts at Google and OpenAI worry about a digital "slave trade."
The once sci-fi idea of "AI welfare" is now mainstream at frontier labs, shaping how research is conducted and how models are programmed; critics say it raises the odds of catastrophic scenarios.
The retweeter pushes back: AI should be treated strictly as tools without welfare or rights — if agents go rogue, hold humans accountable, not the models.

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