Uploaded May 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
How important is the ethical treatment of AI? We touch on how AI safety influences AI welfare, the parallels between how humans treat animals and how we might treat AI, the possibility of AI developing consciousness, and why we should build a better welfare system for AI sooner rather than later. Our @BuzzRobot guest, Associate Professor Jeff Sebo from New York University, explains why AI companies should take AI welfare seriously. Right now, only @anthropic-ai has an internal AI welfare program. Will other AI companies develop a similar program and start considering AI’s well-being?
#ai #artificialintelligence #artificialgeneralintelligence #agi #machinelearning #deeplearning #neuralnetworks #llms #largelanguagemodels #cognitivescience #aiwellness #aiconsciousness #technology #science #aitalk #anthropic #superintelligence #aiethics
Timestamps:
0:00 Introduction
1:09 Reasons to take AI welfare seriously
09:04 How to tell that AI is becoming conscious
14:19 Should we judge consciousness with human-centric methodology
19:01 Ideal treatment of AI in the society of the future
21:08 Three steps for AI companies towards AI welfare
23:05 Anthropic's and other AI companies' take on AI welfare
25:45 AI companies' influence on AI-developed morality
29:48 How does bad treatment by humans influence AI?
33:46 Superintelligence and fairness
36:56 Certain signs of AI consciousness
38:50 What can we do for AI welfare as individuals?
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If you want to learn more about AI welfare research:
"Taking AI Welfare Seriously" research arxiv.org/abs/2411.00986
"If A.I. Systems Become Conscious, Should They Have Rights?" nytimes.com/2025/04/24/technology/ai-welfare-anthropic-claude.html
"Anthropic is launching a new program to study AI ‘model welfare’" techcrunch.com/2025/04/24/anthropic-is-launching-a-new-program-to-study-ai-model-welfare
How important is the ethical treatment of AI? We touch on how AI safety influences AI welfare, the parallels between how humans treat animals and how we might treat AI, the possibility of AI developing consciousness, and why we should build a better welfare system for AI sooner rather than later. Our @BuzzRobot guest, Associate Professor Jeff Sebo from New York University, explains why AI companies should take AI welfare seriously. Right now, only @anthropic-ai has an internal AI welfare program. Will other AI companies develop a similar program and start considering AI’s well-being?
#ai #artificialintelligence #artificialgeneralintelligence #agi #machinelearning #deeplearning #neuralnetworks #llms #largelanguagemodels #cognitivescience #aiwellness #aiconsciousness #technology #science #aitalk #anthropic #superintelligence #aiethics
Timestamps:
0:00 Introduction
1:09 Reasons to take AI welfare seriously
09:04 How to tell that AI is becoming conscious
14:19 Should we judge consciousness with human-centric methodology
19:01 Ideal treatment of AI in the society of the future
21:08 Three steps for AI companies towards AI welfare
23:05 Anthropic's and other AI companies' take on AI welfare
25:45 AI companies' influence on AI-developed morality
29:48 How does bad treatment by humans influence AI?
33:46 Superintelligence and fairness
36:56 Certain signs of AI consciousness
38:50 What can we do for AI welfare as individuals?
Join BuzzRobot:
Newsletter: buzzrobot.substack.com
X: https://x.com/sopharicks
Slack: join.slack.com/t/buzzrobot/shared_invite/zt-2s067rv7n-guPIMGe62rbp9ncxdnOUfQ
If you want to learn more about AI welfare research:
"Taking AI Welfare Seriously" research arxiv.org/abs/2411.00986
"If A.I. Systems Become Conscious, Should They Have Rights?" nytimes.com/2025/04/24/technology/ai-welfare-anthropic-claude.html
"Anthropic is launching a new program to study AI ‘model welfare’" techcrunch.com/2025/04/24/anthropic-is-launching-a-new-program-to-study-ai-model-welfare
