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community:leiden_hybrid_concepts-run4-c6-c11Near-term AI consciousness and moral patienthood
Examines plausibility of machine consciousness in coming years and associated ethical obligations, grounded in computational functionalism arguments.
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- Taking AI Welfare Seriously3 members
- 2026-05-14_phil-trans-A-goodfire-aboutblank-impact.md1 member
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- Computational functionalism is plausible and well-supported, so it would be a mistake to dismiss near-future AI welfare solely on the basis of high-level arguments against this assumption.Defense against biological substrate objections.
- Even if the chance of near-future AI moral patienthood were as low as 2%, that would still constitute a non-negligible risk.Argument that uncertainty is not a reason to ignore the issue.
- There is a realistic possibility that some AI systems will be conscious and/or robustly agentic, and thus morally significant, in the near future.Central thesis of the report.
- Recent AI advances are revolutionary but far from recapitulating human-like cognitive abilities or consciousness.