Is 'AI Welfare' the New Frontier In Ethics?

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By BeauHDNov 11, 2024, 4:13 pm289 pts
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: A few months ago, Anthropic quietly hired its first dedicated "AI welfare" researcher, Kyle Fish, to explore whether future AI models might deserve moral consideration and protection, reports AI newsletter Transformer. While sentience in AI models is an…

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