AI Welfare Was Neglected by EA for Years: Eleos AI Research Founded Only in 2024
EpistemicHope · x · 2026-10-10
Responding to criticism that the EA community long ignored AI welfare, EpistemicHope notes Eleos AI Research was founded in 2024—not just now—and argues every EA cause area starts with a few nerds before growing large enough to notice. The original post recalls that 2-3 years ago, despite functionally conscious-seeming models like Sydney and Claude 3 Opus, AI welfare was conspicuously absent from EA discourse.
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