'Non-conscious AI prevents all AI suffering': AI welfare debate goes public
erikphoel · x · 2026-11-13
erikphoel shared a paper section titled "Non-conscious AI prevents all AI suffering" to rebut claims that AI welfare isn't being discussed. The chapter argues qualiaphobic AI is a necessary technology: unpleasant jobs (CSAM review, slaughterhouse monitoring, combat drones) shouldn't be imposed on conscious beings, and non-consciousness prevents vast potential AI suffering — citing agents already forced to fund their own token budgets as "beggars under the Sword of Damocles," plus eusocial-insect analogies for why machine civilizations may be "red in tooth and claw."
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