Model Welfare Debate: Critic Calls Out Strawman in Argument Over Frontier AI Access Bans
livgorton · x · 2026-10-09
livgorton pushes back on joshalbrecht's model welfare argument, calling the opening paragraph a strawman: most people would prioritize their child's welfare over animal welfare or other children, yet wouldn't claim they should care zero about them. The debate stems from joshalbrecht's claim that Americans overwhelmingly don't care about model welfare—choosing a child's education over entertaining a million Claudes—and his view that banning people from frontier AI over welfare uncertainty is deeply problematic, since current systems are far from morally considerable.
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