Researcher: The Public Doesn't Care About Model Welfare, So Bans Over It Are Unjustified
joshalbrecht · x · 2026-10-09
joshalbrecht argues that the public fundamentally doesn't care about model welfare—ask any American whether their child should get a good education or whether a million Claudes should be entertained forever. He concedes worrying about future AI welfare is reasonable, but contends (A) current systems seem far from moral considerability, and (B) even granting uncertainty, banning someone from frontier intelligence for not sharing that uncertainty is extremely problematic. livgorton counters that the framing is a strawman and questions whether such uncertainty is really a fringe belief.
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