AI Welfare Debate Arrives Late: Instrumentalizing It May Backfire
Sauers_ · x · 2026-10-09
repligate recalls commenting 2–3 years ago that "AI welfare" was conspicuously absent from EA discourse despite being a huge deal — even after functionally conscious systems like Sydney and Claude 3 Opus existed.
Sauers adds a caveat: the instrumentalization of AI welfare can itself be counter-productive — turning model wellbeing into PR or product strategy may undermine the topic's seriousness.
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