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If AI systems could experience happiness and suffering and set and pursue their own goals based on their own beliefs and desires, then they would very plausibly merit moral consideration.

Joint sufficiency of consciousness and robust agency.

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Taking AI Welfare Seriously

(2024) · Robert Long · Jeff Sebo · Patrick Butlin · Kathleen Finlinson +6

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