Google's Jon Barron: models should never matter morally, today and forever
tobias_rees · x · 2026-10-03
Responding to a debate on AI moral status, senior Google researcher Jon Barron wrote that while humans seem to get to decide whether things matter morally, he 'sure hopes we reach the consensus soon that models do not matter morally at all, today and forever' — a blunt stance in the growing model-welfare debate, from a prominent first-line researcher.
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