Maturing to the point of a principled stance on sentience and agency is probably an existential requirement for humankind.

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• Developing principled sentience frameworks is an existential requirement for humankindhypothesis0.882
  Levin's argument that adequate sentience assessment frameworks are necessary for responsible co-evolution with novel embodied intelligences.
• Developing principled sentience frameworks is an existential requirement for humanity as it encounters diverse intelligences.claim0.861
• We must develop principled approaches to evaluating the sentience of (and thus, our responsibility to) beings of unfamiliar provenance and composition.claim0.840
  Call to action for new frameworks.
• Crump et al. (2022) offer a well-argued example of an essential development: a rigorous framework for assessing sentience from the perspective of moral concern over an agent's welfare.claim0.807
  Levin's endorsement of the target paper's contribution.
• How can we develop principled approaches to evaluating sentience in agents of unfamiliar provenance and composition?question0.797
• The correct level of agency is an empirical question, not a philosophical one.claim0.795
  We must determine the optimal stance by testing what predictive/control strategies work best.
• When people think about what is needed to give them surroundings in which life can be lived, they CAN articulate itclaim0.792
  Optimistic statement about the latent capacity of ordinary people to express their deepest needs
• There is no consensus ethical framework for the creation of new sentient minds — neither for biological children nor for AI — that is grounded in principled theoryquestion0.789
  Identified as a major unsolved problem that AI makes newly urgent