Philosophy of mind circles see model welfare as mainstream, not fringe
AaronBergman18 · x · 2026-10-09
A dispute over "model welfare": one critic calls it an attempt to force fringe beliefs on the world, while Aaron Bergman pushes back that within philosophy of mind academia, taking AI model welfare seriously is not fringe — you can object to the merits or to that group's authority, but insisting it's fringe doesn't make it so.
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