My returning guest this week is Jeff Sebo, associate professor of Environmental Studies, Affiliated Professor of Bioethics, Medical Ethics, Philosophy, and Law, Director of the Center for Environmental and Animal Protection, Director of the Center for Mind, Ethics, and Policy, and Co-Director of the Wild Animal Welfare Program at New York University. He’s recently coauthored two articles on AI Welfare, taking AI welfare seriously in 2024 and Studying AI Welfare Empirically. We discuss the challenges of getting people to care about this issue and what it might mean if non-sentient AI are still moral patients.
Taking AI Welfare Seriously: https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.00986
Studying AI Welfare Empirically: https://nonhumanminds.org/studying-ai-welfare-empirically/?trk=public_post_comment-text
Music by GW Rodriguez
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