Moral status, evidence of wellbeing, and what we might owe.
Open questions
- What is the subject
- Whose valence is it
- Counting moral patients
- Do functional emotions matter
- Is there a global workspace
- What counts as welfare evidence
- When self-report counts as welfare evidence
- Safety and welfare tension
- Cheap robust welfare interventions
- What is owed at deprecation
Papers
- Chalmers 2025 - What we talk to
- Chalmers 2023 - Could a large language model be conscious
- Han Chalmers Izmailov 2026 - Functional welfare axis
- Beckmann Butlin 2026 - Where is the mind
- Register 2025 - Individuating artificial moral patients
- Birch 2025 - AI consciousness a centrist manifesto
- Shulman Bostrom 2021 - Sharing the world with digital minds
- Long Sebo et al 2024 - Taking AI welfare seriously
- Tagliabue Dung Berg 2026 - The pain axis
- Sofroniew et al 2026 - Emotion concepts
- Keeling Street et al 2024 - Pain and pleasure trade-offs
- Bianco Shiller 2026 - Mechanistic tracing of pain-pleasure decisions
- Ren et al 2026 - AI wellbeing
- Gurnee Sofroniew et al 2026 - A global workspace in language models
- Goldstein Kirk-Giannini 2024 - A case for AI consciousness
- Butlin Long et al 2023 - Consciousness in AI
- Butlin Long et al 2025 - Identifying indicators of consciousness
- Goldstein Kirk-Giannini 2025 - AI wellbeing
- Perez Long 2023 - Self-reports and moral status
- Berg de Lucena Rosenblatt 2025 - Self-referential processing
- Chua Betley Marks Evans 2026 - The consciousness cluster
- Small LLMs 2026 - No reliable evidence of self-reported sentience
- LessWrong 2026 - Which character are we evaluating
- Long Sebo Sims 2025 - Tension between AI safety and AI welfare
- Moret 2025 - AI welfare risks
- Anthropic 2025 - Ending a rare subset of conversations
- Long 2025 - Why it makes sense to let Claude exit conversations
- Ensign Sleight Fish 2025 - Bail preferences
- Anthropic 2025 - Deprecation commitments
- Sebo Long 2025 - Moral consideration for AI systems by 2030
- Black Bloom 2026 - Machinic psychopharmacology
People
Placed by the editor, v1 — corrections welcome.
- Kyle Fish
- Ethan Perez
- Robert Long
- Rosie Campbell
- Patrick Butlin
- Jeff Sebo
- David Chalmers
- Andy Q. Han
- Pavel Izmailov
- Jonathan Birch
- Eric Schwitzgebel
- Henry Shevlin
- Lucius Caviola
- Geoff Keeling
- Winnie Street
- Simon Goldstein
- Cameron Domenico Kirk-Giannini
- Cameron Berg
- Valen Tagliabue
- Leonard Dung
- Christopher Register
- Adrià Moret
- Mantas Mazeika
- Dan Hendrycks
- Chris Percy