Bicameral Labs proposes "Qualiaphobia": engineering AI architectures hostile to consciousness
erikphoel · x · 2026-11-14
Bicameral Labs introduced "Qualiaphoria for AI Safety"—no, "Qualiaphobia": engineering AI architectures to be hostile to theories of consciousness, current and future, so systems cannot become conscious. This would simultaneously solve the AI welfare problem (avoiding, as a Rabbi memorably told Anthropic, creating millions of slaves) and ensure human preferences dominate the future.
Commenters noted the interesting implication: hopefully, preventing consciousness does not require first understanding it.
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