Are AI systems deserving of moral consideration?

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• Do AI systems merit moral consideration for their own sake?question0.933
  Underlying normative question that moral disagreement about AI consciousness generates.
• 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.
• Must AI systems themselves be allowed to participate in deliberation about their treatment?question0.812
  Boundary problem applied to AI; the paper acknowledges no neutral answer.
• "[Failing to extend moral consideration to AI] might 'be the morally worst thing that any society has done in the entire history of Earth'."quote0.797
  Schwitzgebel's (2023) stark formulation of what advocates see as at stake, illustrating the depth of moral disagreement.
• 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.