Are AI systems deserving of moral consideration?

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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.hypothesis0.873
  Joint sufficiency of consciousness and robust agency.
• If an AI system could be a welfare subject and moral patient, then many model instances could be run after training, scaling up the problem rapidly.hypothesis0.837
  Scalability concern.
• There is a realistic possibility that some AI systems will be conscious and/or robustly agentic, and thus morally significant, in the near future.claim0.824
  Central thesis of the report.
• We would like to train AI systems that remain helpful, honest, and harmless, even as some AI capabilities reach or exceed human-level performance.quote0.788
  Foundational motivation for the research.
• our analysis suggests that no current AI systems are conscious, but also suggests that there are no obvious technical barriers to building AI systems which satisfy these indicators.quote0.786
  Key takeaway from abstract, amended version.
• AI systems need to be able to deal with reality as it actually is, not with the way that we think it is.claim0.784
  Paraphrase of Cantwell Smith's argument; aligns with Buddhist emphasis on seeing reality without conceptual imposition.
• Current AI systems are a gift — a training sandbox in which humanity can explore ethical questions about diverse intelligence before the arrival of true diverse intelligences makes these questions immediate and dire.claim0.780
  Reframes AI not as threat but as preparatory exercise for the harder ethical challenges to come
• No current AI systems are conscious.claim0.778
  Overall assessment of current state; qualified by possibility.